On Sun, Oct 17, 1999 at 09:01:15AM -0700, Mike Cheponis wrote:
> [...]
> Oct 16 15:10:38 USB /netbsd: wd0: soft error (corrected)
> Oct 16 15:10:38 USB /netbsd: wd0a: DMA error reading fsbn 114288 of 114288-114319 (wd0 bn 114351; cn 113 tn 7 sn 6), retrying
> Oct 16 15:10:38 USB /netbsd: wd0: soft error (corrected)
> Oct 16 15:10:38 USB /netbsd: wd0a: DMA error reading fsbn 85088 of 85088-85103 (wd0 bn 85151; cn 84 tn 7 sn 38), retrying
> Oct 16 15:10:39 USB /netbsd: wd0: soft error (corrected)
> Oct 16 15:10:39 USB /netbsd: wd0a: DMA error reading fsbn 85104 of 85104-85119 (wd0 bn 85167; cn 84 tn 7 sn 54), retrying
> Oct 16 15:10:39 USB /netbsd: wd0: soft error (corrected)
> 
> [... many more of those ...]
> 
> 
> He gets many many of these "soft errors".  But it makes the system unusable.
> 
> It worked perfectly on my machine.
> 
> Any ideas?  (We have not re-verified the disk is still OK by putting it
> back in my machine, though.)

Try changing the IDE cable. These messages means that the DMA machinery
detected a tranfer error, probably leading to corruption of the data
transfered.

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Manuel Bouyer, LIP6, Universite Paris VI.           Manuel.Bouyer@lip6.fr
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