Re: Serial ATA Lockups

[Robert Hancock]

Tomas Carnecky wrote:
> My setup: Shuttle XPC Barebone, AMD CPU, two serial ATA disks in a 
> software raid setup.
> When the system is under heavy load (start World of Warcraft, dd 
> if=/dev/zero of=/part/file etc) I get these messages in dmesg:
>
> ata1: translated ATA stat/err 0x51/84 to SCSI SK/ASC/ASCQ 0xb/47/00
> ata1: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
> ata1: error=0x84 { DriveStatusError BadCRC }
>
> over and over, pages with these messages.

BadCRC indicates CRC errors during data transfers on the SATA interface. 
This is almost certainly hardware problems - most likely a bad SATA 
cable, or maybe a bad drive or motherboard controller.

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