On Thu, Jan 17, 2002 at 03:20:19PM +0100, Robert Epprecht wrote:
> I have a new hd. 'dmesg' says:
>
> ide1: BM-DMA at 0xd808-0xd80f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:pio
> hdc: Maxtor 4D040H2, ATA DISK drive
> ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
> hdc: Maxtor 4D040H2, 39083MB w/2048kB Cache, CHS=4982/255/63, UDMA
>
> If I say 'hdparm -t /dev/hdc' (or want to mount it) I get:
>
> /dev/hdc:
> Timing buffered disk reads: hdc: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
> hdc: dma_intr: error=0x84 { DriveStatusError BadCRC }
> hdc: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
> [ ... last two lines repeated three times ... ]
> hdc: DMA disabled
> ide1: reset: success
> 64 MB in 14.67 seconds = 4.36 MB/sec
>
> Why? How do I fix that?
Just remember, make sure you have backups if you're going to fiddle
with hdparm: I managed to trash (as far as I can tell) all my Linux
filesystems playing around with it.
-rob
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