Re: Whats the problem with my IDE...

2007-08-01 Thread Alan Cox
> I still have those messages, but now there seem to be much less of them. > > It would really help me, if someone could tell me about how critical > such error messages are. The CRC errors are indicative of cable or similar problems but each time you see a CRC error the transmission is repeated

Re: Whats the problem with my IDE...

2007-08-01 Thread Manuel Reimer
At first: Thank you very much for the detailled information! Alan Cox wrote: Bad CRC indicates a data transfer problem between the drive and the controller. The CRC is computed one end and verified the other. The OS isn't directly involved. This usually means either #1 A 40 wire cable in use f

Re: Whats the problem with my IDE...

2007-07-31 Thread Alan Cox
> After mounting my four LVs, formatted with XFS, here, I'm starting to > delete all files on those LVs to be able to do a fresh linux install. > While deleting, I get *many* DMA errors and "BAD CRC" messages. Bad CRC indicates a data transfer problem between the drive and the controller. The CR