Francois Duranleau([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > On 8/4/07, Francois Duranleau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 8/3/07, Brad Sawatzky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi Francois, > > > > > > I agree with Doug: CRC errors shouldn't be ignored. At _best_ they are a > > > sign that something in your system is marginal. At worst you end up > > > reading and/or writing bogus data. The fact that the errors persisted > > > after you changed hard drives suggest either a bad cable (most likely), > > > bad > > > secondary device on that cable, or bad motherboard (unlikely). > > > > I tried to change the IDE cables (I had a few spares from my father's > > computer). > > I happened to notice that I had a 40 pins cable. I replaced it with a 80 > > pins > > cable. I have two, I tried both: nothing changed. I still have CRC errors. > > BTW, > > there is only one drive on that cable. > > > > However, I noticed that the motherboard's chipset's fan is dead. I knew it > > was > > having a hard time spinning lately, but now, it's gone. Would it be the > > motherboard's chipset that causes those errors because it's too hot? > > Browsing around to look for potential problems with the VIA chipset driver, I > came upon this: > > http://www.tiny.cc/xORCV > (see the last post in the thread) > > Apparently, I am not the only one getting this kind of CRC errors on the > primary IDE interface (and I do happen to have this exact motherboard: > ABIT KT7). I will look if there are still some BIOS updates that may change > something.
I also have the ABIT KT7 and it has gone from kernels 2.4.27 -> 2.6.18-4 with no CRC errors showing up at all. It's only been running for 5-6 years. CPU Fan has been changed twice but other then that, its fine. Wayne -- Turnaucka's Law: The attention span of a computer is only as long as its electrical cord. _______________________________________________________ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
