Subject: Re: CRC errors on wd[01]
To: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
From: Louis Guillaume <lguillaume@berklee.edu>
List: port-i386
Date: 01/18/2007 15:58:36
Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 18, 2007 at 01:10:10AM -0500, Louis Guillaume wrote:
>> I have a system that is throwing tons of CRC error messages; keeps
>> downgrading the DMA mode. dmesg output is at the bottom of this message.
>>
>> Any idea what could be going on here?
> 
> I assume you already checked that the cable and power supply are OK.
> It could be that the drive are incompatible on the same bus (I've already seen
> this); does wd0 works properly if you remove wd1 ?
> 

Good suggestion; I'll check that tonight. Also I'll check the cables
again. It could be that I mixed them up a while ago.

But one thing that's a big clue is that I recently put both drives on
the same bus.

Thanks!

Louis