Re: How's the nforce4 support in Linux?

[Chuck <chunkeey@web.de>]

On Saturday, 26. March 2005 18:32, Marcin Dalecki wrote:
> On 2005-03-26, at 16:19, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> > `
> >
> >> hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
> >> hda: dma_intr: error=0x84 { DriveStatusError BadCRC
> >
> > BadCRC is 99% sure a cabling issue; either a bad/overheated cable or a
> > cable used at too high a speed for the cable.
>
> No. It is more likely that the timing programming between the disk and
> host controller
> are in a miss-match state. UDMA mode detection can come in to mind too.
> It makes sense to experiment with hdparm to see if the problem goes
> away in non
> Ultra DMA modes.

Thanks, I tried the cable that came with the drive  (it was still sealed) and 
experimented a little bit with hdparm...
Now, the problem seems to be gone...  
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