Re: Weird Error
On Sun, Nov 26, 2000 at 08:17:42PM -0800, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote:
> on Sat, Nov 25, 2000 at 11:50:15PM -0600, Joseph Anthony (jga@wastelandranger.org) wrote:
> > I just installed Debian 2.2 and compiled the 2.2.17 kernel on a 3.2 gig
> > Quantum Fireball EX. The drive is a slave on the primary IDE cable and
> > both drives are jumpered correctly. I did bad block scans when
> > initializing all partitions and nothing bad came up. This is the error:
> >
> > Starting deferred execution scheduler: atdhdb: dma_intr: status=0x51 {
> > DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
> > hdb: dma_intr: error=0x84 { DriveStatusError BadCRC }
> > hdb: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
> > hdb: dma_intr: error=0x84 { DriveStatusError BadCRC }
> > hdb: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
> > hdb: dma_intr: error=0x84 { DriveStatusError BadCRC }
> > hdb: timeout waiting for DMA
> > hdb: irq timeout: status=0x59 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest Error
> > }
> > hdb: irq timeout: error=0x84 { DriveStatusError BadCRC }
> > hdb: DMA disabled
> > ide0: reset: success
> >
> > Can anyone tell me what I can do to fix this?
>
> You may have a bad drive. Or you could have problems with DMA, though I
> don't particularly understand it.
Check the kernel documentation for notes on DMA. Or if you're using
the menu configurator for configuring a kernel, look at the help notes
within. I recall seeing notes on an option to be used with one of the
IDE drivers in cases like the above.
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