On Sat, Aug 04, 2007 at 12:35:54AM -0400, Francois Duranleau wrote: > I tried to change the IDE cables (I had a few spares from my father's computer). > I happened to notice that I had a 40 pins cable. I replaced it with a 80 pins > cable. I have two, I tried both: nothing changed. I still have CRC errors. BTW, > there is only one drive on that cable. > > However, I noticed that the motherboard's chipset's fan is dead. I knew it was > having a hard time spinning lately, but now, it's gone. Would it be the > motherboard's chipset that causes those errors because it's too hot? Looks like a good candidate to me ... > Well, once in a while, the kernel resets ide0, and then DMA is dropped (and I > force it back on afterwards), which I guess is not a good idea. Such troubles need to be investigated (says me who lost a disk without any decent backups. At least no (very) important data on it). Regards, Andrei -- If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. (Albert Einstein)
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