Re: [K12OSN] Disk CRC errors

["Michael E. Jaggers" <mej mindspring com>]

In <59553 65 201 255 52 1069773015 squirrel sls-cd3p21 dca2 superb net>,
on 11/25/03 
   at 09:10 AM, "Darryl L. Palmer, Jr." <DPalmer TootBee com> said:

>Check to make sure that the IDE cable is good.  The cable could be coming
>loose, is bent all weird or have other things wrapping around them you
>need to fix it.

>Darryl

>Scott Sherrill said:
>> I have an IDE drive that gives me the following errors:
>>
>> Nov 25 09:00:12 pendragon kernel: hdb: dma_intr: error=0x84 { DriveStatusError BadCRC }
>> Nov 25 09:00:18 pendragon kernel: hdb: dma_intr: error=0x84 { DriveStatusError BadCRC }
>> Nov 25 09:00:27 pendragon kernel: hdb: dma_intr: error=0x84 { DriveStatusError BadCRC }

It could also be a cable that is out-of-spec for the drive, e.g.: UDMA
66/100 drives and a cable that will only handle UDMA 33 at best.

Without knowing more about the drives (manufacturer, model, age, etc.)
it's difficult to say exactly what could be causing the problem though.

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