From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Fri, 28 Sep 2001 01:56:11 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Fri, 28 Sep 2001 01:56:02 -0400 Received: from cc839443-a.chmbl1.ga.home.com ([24.5.105.138]:31237 "EHLO spock") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Fri, 28 Sep 2001 01:55:59 -0400 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII From: Steven Joerger To: "David Grant" , Subject: Re: ide drive problem? Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2001 01:55:59 -0400 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.3.1] In-Reply-To: <20010928041519.968EA4FA00@spock> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Message-Id: <20010928060858.9CFA74FA00@spock> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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" > To: > 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 > > - > > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" > > in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/