Re: Sil0680 + Maxtor 300Gb drives

Andris wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> I have problem with Sil0680 based ATA RAID controller + Maxtor 300Gb HDDs (I
> use it as ATA controller).
> On booth channels slave drives work without any problems.
> But when I try to do something with master drives I see something like this:
> 
> ad4: WARNING - WRITE_DMA UDMA ICRC error (retrying request) LBA=63
> ad4: WARNING - WRITE_DMA UDMA ICRC error (retrying request) LBA=63
> ad4: FAILURE - WRITE_DMA status=51<READY,DSC,ERROR> error=84<ICRC,ABORTED>
> LBA=63
> ad6: WARNING - WRITE_DMA UDMA ICRC error (retrying request) LBA=63
> ad6: WARNING - WRITE_DMA UDMA ICRC error (retrying request) LBA=63
> ad6: FAILURE - WRITE_DMA status=51<READY,DSC,ERROR> error=84<ICRC,ABORTED>
> LBA=63
> ad6: WARNING - WRITE_DMA UDMA ICRC error (retrying request) LBA=63
> ad6: WARNING - WRITE_DMA UDMA ICRC error (retrying request) LBA=63

Are you sure that your cables are capable of the speed you use ?
Are you sure that the cables are the right way around ? (blue connector 
at controller grey/black for drives)

A dmesg would be nice so we would know what kind of system we are 
talking about...

-Søren