Hi, I noticed you are using Hitachi drives. Our experience has shown that Hitachi has a horrendous advanced replacement warranty. Avoid them if you can. Lanny On Fri, 2004-01-23 at 15:50, Michael McGoldrick wrote: > 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. -- =+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+= Lanny Baron Proud to be 100% FreeBSD http://www.FreeBSDsystems.COM =+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=Received on Fri Jan 23 2004 - 11:59:56 UTC
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