On Mon, Feb 19, 2001 at 06:09:53PM +0100, Roine Thunberg wrote:
> 
> Hi... I've just put in another drive exactly the same model... so now I
> have two 30.7GB drives.
> 
> -----
> wd0: transfer error, downgrading to Ultra-DMA mode 1
> wd0(pciide0:0:0): using PIO mode 4, Ultra-DMA mode 1 (using DMA data transfers)
> wd1(pciide0:0:1): using PIO mode 4, Ultra-DMA mode 2 (using DMA data transfers)
> wd0a: aborted command, interface CRC error writing fsbn 16 of 16-19 (wd0 bn 79; cn 0 tn 1 sn 16), retrying
> wd0: soft error (corrected)
> -----
> 
> both drives are on the same ide-controller as you can see.
> Now it seems like it's only wd0 which is wrong. Btw... I switched drives
> so it can't be wrong with the drives. Mabye the controller.

Or cables ? Or power supply ?
But a CRC error is more likely the IDE cable.
Or; maybe it's an IBM drive ? I found that some IBM drives don't play very
nicely as slave.
Anyway I would recommend getting a cheap add-on PCI IDE adapter and use only
master devices. Better performances and less problems :)

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
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