On Fri, Mar 24, 2000 at 10:23:55AM -0500, Duncan Hill wrote:
> On Fri, 24 Mar 2000, Tom Watts wrote:
>
> > Claudiu Balciza wrote:
> > > Mar 23 15:15:53 digital kernel: hdc: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady
> > > SeekComplete Error }
>
> > This means that a sector was not ready correctly (or not found), this
> > could be a bad sector on the device (hd or cd) or just some corrupt
>
> I have also seen similar messages when either the drive is starting to
> fail, or the HD controller on the main board is starting to flake.
The CRC error could be a cable problem (like cable too long for
ATA66). Also, if this is a new drive, you might try the ide patch from
kernel mirrors. It solved similar type of messages for me when trying
to force the drive to dma.
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Hal B
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