Corey Taylor wrote:
Hi all, I popped in an 80-pin cable and the error message went away! Thanks to all for help and suggestions. Now I'm going to scan my disk to see if there is any corruption, though I don't think there would be.
Corey
BTW it's a Seagate Barracuda ATA IV 40GB 7200RPM drive.
On Tue, 2003-12-02 at 04:33, Ow Mun Heng wrote:
-----Original Message----- From: Corey Taylor [mailto:lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Tuesday, December 02, 2003 2:48 PM To: Fedora Users Subject: RE: dma error on startup
The drive is not really that old. I bought it at Best Buy a few months
ago. Though I think it has been manufactured for a couple years now by
Seagate. I know it is a UDMA 100 drive, 7200RPM.
In that case, the 40pin cable _could_ be the problem. I know for a fact that depending on some drive firmwares, the usage of a 40pin over a 80pin cable(what it was designed for) would currupt the data on the drives.
HTH
OW
Usually, you will only lose half of your speed capability. It should not corrupt the data. On some work computers that use the Juki half-sized boards, the speed is halved from 100 MHz/second to a maximum of 50 MHz/ second.
Anyway, your transfer rate should be greatly improved with the 80-pin cable. The error message was good for something. (Leading to getting a better cable)
Jim
