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Hi,
I noticed you are using Hitachi drives. Our experience has shown that
Hitachi has a horrendous advanced replacement warranty. Avoid them if
you can.

Lanny


On Fri, 2004-01-23 at 15:50, Michael McGoldrick wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 20, 2004 at 10:43:33PM +0100, S?ren Schmidt wrote:
> > Michael McGoldrick wrote:
> > >Hi,
> > >I recently bought a Hitachi Deskstar drive (HDS722516VLAT80) onto which I 
> > >was
> > >hoping to transfer my existing set up (since my current IBM drive has been
> > >making some funny noises and 'lost' a partition table last year).
> > >However, I am unable to partition this drive. I get a lot of errors like:
> > >ad3: WARNING - READ_DMA UDMA ICRC error (retrying request) LBA=0
> > >ad3: WARNING - READ_DMA UDMA ICRC error (retrying request) LBA=0
> > >ad3: FAILURE - READ_DMA status=51<READY,DSC,ERROR> error=84<ICRC,ABORTED>
> > >LBA=0
> > 
> > Hmm ICRC errors mean that there are cable problems of some sort.
> > I cannot tell what you have since you havn't provided me with any info 
> > on your configuration.
> > Please mail me the output of "dmesg" so I can get an idea of what we 
> > have here...
> > 
> > -S?ren
> 
> Another data point; Hitachi's drive fitness test thinks the disk is OK. 
> I have attached a verbose dmesg, in case that provides any more information,
> although I am coming to the conclusion this motherboard is just dodgy.
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