Re: ATA question

From: Michael McGoldrick <michael_at_mcgoldrick.org>
Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2004 20:50:08 +0000
On Tue, Jan 20, 2004 at 10:43:33PM +0100, S?ren Schmidt wrote:
> Michael McGoldrick wrote:
> >Hi,
> >I recently bought a Hitachi Deskstar drive (HDS722516VLAT80) onto which I 
> >was
> >hoping to transfer my existing set up (since my current IBM drive has been
> >making some funny noises and 'lost' a partition table last year).
> >However, I am unable to partition this drive. I get a lot of errors like:
> >ad3: WARNING - READ_DMA UDMA ICRC error (retrying request) LBA=0
> >ad3: WARNING - READ_DMA UDMA ICRC error (retrying request) LBA=0
> >ad3: FAILURE - READ_DMA status=51<READY,DSC,ERROR> error=84<ICRC,ABORTED>
> >LBA=0
> 
> Hmm ICRC errors mean that there are cable problems of some sort.
> I cannot tell what you have since you havn't provided me with any info 
> on your configuration.
> Please mail me the output of "dmesg" so I can get an idea of what we 
> have here...
> 
> -S?ren

Another data point; Hitachi's drive fitness test thinks the disk is OK. 
I have attached a verbose dmesg, in case that provides any more information,
although I am coming to the conclusion this motherboard is just dodgy.


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Michael McGoldrick: michael_at_mcgoldrick.org 

Received on Fri Jan 23 2004 - 11:53:36 UTC

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