David,
Thanks for the insight. I am using an 80 pin cable, but the length and
quality are of course suspect. I will swap this out and see if it helps.
Thanks again,
Steven Joerger
On Friday 28 September 2001 01:44 am, David Grant wrote:
> I think the standard response people would give you is that your IDE cable
> is too long, of bad quality, or you are using a 40-pin cable instead of an
> 80-pin cable (although I'm pretty sure that should have been detected, and
> DMA should automatically have not been used, but I heard at one point that
> the code which detected this on motherboards using the vt82c686b chip
> didn't really work in some cases).
>
> That's the standard answer, but I used to get this messages on my machine
> as well (I think it was back when I was trying to use my VIA chipset with
> Redhat 7.1). I don't seem to get them anymore though, but maybe that's
> just because I'm trying to install distros newer than Redhat 7.1. That
> makes me think that I never had CRC errors, it was just some buggy VIA
> code.
>
> I just get the dma timeout errors now with my VIA IDE controller. I also
> get them with the Promise controller (sigh...).
>
> David Grant
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Steven Joerger" <steven@spock.2y.net>
> To: <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
> Sent: Thursday, September 27, 2001 9:02 PM
> Subject: ide drive problem?
>
> > List,
> >
> > When I enable support for my chipset in the kernel (via kt133) I always
>
> get
>
> > these messages:
> >
> > hda: dma_intr: error=0x84 { DriveStatusError BadCRC }
> > hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
> >
> > over and over and ....
> >
> > Any clues to whats going on?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Steven Joerger
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