On Tue, Oct 14, 2003 at 12:01:54AM -0700, Bruce J.A. Nourish wrote:
> Hey Everyone,
> 
> I have the following IDE config:
> 
> Channel		Master		Slave
> Primary		HDD		CDRW
> Secondary	CD		ZIP
> 
> For a while now, -current has been coming out with the following on
> boot:
> 
> wd0: transfer error, downgrading to Ultra-DMA mode 2
> wd0(viaide0:0:0): using PIO mode 4, Ultra-DMA mode 2 (Ultra/33) (using DMA data transfers)
> cd0(viaide0:0:1): using PIO mode 4, Ultra-DMA mode 2 (Ultra/33) (using DMA data transfers)
> wd0d: error reading fsbn 0 (wd0 bn 0; cn 0 tn 0 sn 0), retrying
> wd0: (aborted command, interface CRC error)
> wd0: soft error (corrected)
> sd0(viaide0:1:1):  Check Condition on CDB: 0x00 00 00 00 00 00
>     SENSE KEY:  Not Ready
>      ASC/ASCQ:  Medium Not Present
> 
> sd1: fabricating a geometry
> sd2: fabricating a geometry
> sd0(viaide0:1:1):  Check Condition on CDB: 0x00 00 00 00 00 00
>     SENSE KEY:  Not Ready
>      ASC/ASCQ:  Medium Not Present
> 
> Nothing unpleasant seems to happen after this. I think perhaps there
> are two issues here: one to do with DMA and one to do with IDE ZIP
> drives.

The ZIP errors are harmless. They were already there before, just not
printed.

The DMA errors didn't happen before ?
Can you send a more complete dmesg ?

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