On Sat, Jun 24, 2000 at 10:33:03AM +0300, Jukka Marin wrote:
> I installed a new IDE disk (wd1) on my 1.4.2 system and it's working less
> than perfectly:
> 
> [...]
> wd1e:  aborted command, interface CRC error reading fsbn 8723152 of
> 8723152-8723263 (wd1 bn 8723152; cn 8653 tn 14 sn 46), retrying
> wd1: soft error (corrected)
> wd1e:  aborted command, interface CRC error reading fsbn 8757680 of
> 8757680-8757807 (wd1 bn 8757680; cn 8688 tn 2 sn 50), retrying
> wd1: soft error (corrected)
> wd1e:  aborted command, interface CRC error reading fsbn 8874144 of
> 8874144-8874159 (wd1 bn 8874144; cn 8803 tn 11 sn 27), retrying
> wd1: soft error (corrected)
> wd1e:  aborted command, interface CRC error reading fsbn 7732400 of
> 7732400-7732511 (wd1 bn 7732400; cn 7671 tn 0 sn 32), retrying
> wd1: soft error (corrected)
> wd1e:  aborted command, interface CRC error reading fsbn 7905536 of
> 7905536-7905647 (wd1 bn 7905536; cn 7842 tn 12 sn 44), retrying
> wd1: soft error (corrected)
> wd1e:  aborted command, interface CRC error reading fsbn 8024048 of
> 8024048-8024175 (wd1 bn 8024048; cn 7960 tn 5 sn 53), retrying
> wd1: soft error (corrected)
> wd1e:  aborted command, interface CRC error reading fsbn 8024944 of
> 8024944-8025071 (wd1 bn 8024944; cn 7961 tn 4 sn 4), retrying
> wd1: soft error (corrected)
> wd1: transfer error, downgrading to Ultra-DMA mode 1
> wd0(pciide0:0:0): using PIO mode 4, Ultra-DMA mode 2 (using DMA data
> transfers)
> wd1(pciide0:0:1): using PIO mode 4, Ultra-DMA mode 1 (using DMA data
> transfers)
> wd1e:  aborted command, interface CRC error reading fsbn 8190528 of
> 8190528-8190639 (wd1 bn 8190528; cn 8125 tn 8 sn 24), retrying
> wd1: soft error (corrected)
> wd1: transfer error, downgrading to PIO mode 4
> wd0(pciide0:0:0): using PIO mode 4, Ultra-DMA mode 2 (using DMA data
> transfers)
> wd1(pciide0:0:1): using PIO mode 4
> wd1e:  aborted command, interface CRC error reading fsbn 9666992 of
> 9666992-9667103 (wd1 bn 9666992; cn 9590 tn 4 sn 20), retrying
> wd1: soft error (corrected)
> 
> 
> I see some similar messages for my ATAPI CD-ROM drive as well (on the
> secondary IDE interface).
> 
> Is this a bug in the 1.4.2 IDE driver (has it been fixed in 1.5) or
> a hardware problem?  Can I fix it in 1.4.2 somehow?

May be a hardware problem, maybe an electrical incompartibility between
wd0 and wd1. Any chances to try wd1 on the second channel ?

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
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