Re: often ide errors on amd64 / A8N-SLI

[jurriaan <thunder7@xs4all.nl>]

From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Date: Thu, Jul 21, 2005 at 08:30:13PM +0100
> On Iau, 2005-07-21 at 19:26 +0200, jurriaan wrote:
> > hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
> > hda: dma_intr: error=0x84 { DriveStatusError BadCRC }
> 
> There was corruption on the cable between the controller and drive. That
> usually indicates a cable or noise problem in the PC but could indicate
> mistuning of the interface. Make sure the IDE cable is 
> 
>  [controller]<---- long section ----->[slave]--short section-->[master]
> 
> as one common cause is having the cable the other way around.
  
The cable happens to run the correct way, but you've given me a valuable
hint. I was wondering why hda had errors and hdc (which is the same
drive on the second port of the controller) didn't. Perhaps I'll try
another cable.

Thanks,
Jurriaan
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