Re: ext3fs errors with kernel 2.6.18 but not with 2.4.27
Francois Duranleau(xiao.bai.xiong@gmail.com) is reported to have said:
> On 8/4/07, Francois Duranleau <xiao.bai.xiong@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 8/3/07, Brad Sawatzky <brad+debian@swatter.net> wrote:
> > > Hi Francois,
> > >
> > > I agree with Doug: CRC errors shouldn't be ignored. At _best_ they are a
> > > sign that something in your system is marginal. At worst you end up
> > > reading and/or writing bogus data. The fact that the errors persisted
> > > after you changed hard drives suggest either a bad cable (most likely), bad
> > > secondary device on that cable, or bad motherboard (unlikely).
> >
> > 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?
>
> Browsing around to look for potential problems with the VIA chipset driver, I
> came upon this:
>
> http://www.tiny.cc/xORCV
> (see the last post in the thread)
>
> Apparently, I am not the only one getting this kind of CRC errors on the
> primary IDE interface (and I do happen to have this exact motherboard:
> ABIT KT7). I will look if there are still some BIOS updates that may change
> something.
I also have the ABIT KT7 and it has gone from kernels 2.4.27 ->
2.6.18-4 with no CRC errors showing up at all. It's only been running
for 5-6 years. CPU Fan has been changed twice but other then that,
its fine.
Wayne
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