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 > > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list >
