From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264296AbTL3UOF (ORCPT ); Tue, 30 Dec 2003 15:14:05 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265905AbTL3UOF (ORCPT ); Tue, 30 Dec 2003 15:14:05 -0500 Received: from mx1.it.wmich.edu ([141.218.1.89]:64673 "EHLO mx1.it.wmich.edu") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264296AbTL3UOC (ORCPT ); Tue, 30 Dec 2003 15:14:02 -0500 Message-ID: <3FF1DC88.9040806@wmich.edu> Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2003 15:14:00 -0500 From: Ed Sweetman User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031107 Debian/1.5-3 X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Eric D. Mudama" CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Is it safe to ignore UDMA BadCRC errors? References: <16368.20794.147453.255239@jik.kamens.brookline.ma.us> <20031229195235.GC26821@bounceswoosh.org> <16369.25514.425834.153361@jik.kamens.brookline.ma.us> <20031230200643.GC6992@bounceswoosh.org> In-Reply-To: <20031230200643.GC6992@bounceswoosh.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Eric D. Mudama wrote: > On Tue, Dec 30 at 6:38, Jonathan Kamens wrote: > >> I replaced the cable with a brand new one and I'm still getting the >> CRC errors. What now? > > > Do you know if you're doing reads or writes when the errors occur? > > What motherboard/chipset are you using with this drive? > > Is the environment especially warm? > CRC errors can easily be caused by the cable being close to a magnet or high electricity source. Watch out for the case speaker and any other speakers around the cable. Also, make sure you're using S.M.A.R.T to check the drive, itself, for problems.