Re: drive errors!

[Tom Allison <tallison@tacocat.net>]

ronin2@bellatlantic.net wrote:
> On Wed, 12 Mar 2003 17:29:05 -0500
> Tom Allison <tallison@tacocat.net> wrote:
>
>
> > I've been runnign this PC for about a year now.
> > I recently upgraded from 2.4.18 to 2.4.20.
> > And this is the thanks I get....
> > Any suggestions?  It seems to work.
> > --------------------------------------------------------------------
> > Mar 12 12:14:21 gandolf kernel: hda: dma_intr: error=0x84 {
> > DriveStatusError BadCRC }Mar 12 12:14:21 gandolf kernel: hda: dma_intr: 
> > status=0x51 { DriveReady
> > SeekCompleteError }
>
>
> Do make menuconfig, and go to ATA/IDE/MFM/RLL support | IDE, ATA, and ATAPI Block devices, and set "Use multi-mode by default". See the help text for that option.
>
> Kevin

Some additional information about the problem.

The kernel is a stock Debian kernel.  So was the 2.4.18 kernel.

Under 2.4.18, I do not get these errors.

If I revert back to the 2.4.18 kernel, the errors go away.

Therefore I am not certain that this drive is on the virge of death, 
rather I think that the kernel is just buggered.

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