On Sun, 2 Jul 2000, Mark Hahn wrote:
> BadCRC is just a report that your drive/controller believe your ide cable
> is bogus. nothing more or less. it's not harmful, since Linux retries
> such failed transactions. and the solution is just to fix the cabling
> (ie, <=18", both ends plugged in, and use the new 80-conductor cable for
> udma66 (doesn't hurt on lower modes, either))
>
> it seems like BadCRC reports most often result from people running udma66
> with normal 40-conductor cables. this can happen when a driver update
> adds udma66 functionality...
I run the ATA/66 drive with the cable Abit provided with the BP6
package. If it's bogus, please do tell so I can get my problem off l-k.
Samuli
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