Re: IDE DMA problems on 2.4.0 with vt82c686a driver

Doug McNaught (doug@wireboard.com)
11 Jan 2001 10:12:54 -0500


James Brents <James@nistix.com> writes:

> Hello,
> Since this looks like either a chipset, drive, or driver problem, I am
> submitting this.
>
> I have recently started using DMA mode on my harddisk. However, I occasionally
> (not often/constant, but sometimes) get CRC errors:
>
> hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
> hda: dma_intr: error=0x84 { DriveStatusError BadCRC }

You might try testing with a different drive if you can get hold of
one--if that works OK, that'll narrow it down to either a drive or
drive-chipset interaction. The above error message could very well
mean that you're starting to lose the drive, so keep backups!

-Doug
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