From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Mar 3 9:55:58 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from pintail.mail.pas.earthlink.net (pintail.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.122]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 09FE837B405 for ; Sun, 3 Mar 2002 09:55:56 -0800 (PST) Received: from dialup-63.208.66.55.dial1.chicago1.level3.net ([63.208.66.55] helo=there) by pintail.mail.pas.earthlink.net with smtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 16haD8-0001OY-00; Sun, 03 Mar 2002 09:55:50 -0800 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Bob Giesen To: Scott , FreeBSD questions Subject: Re: FBSD 4.4 UDMA ICRC error Date: Sun, 3 Mar 2002 11:55:38 -0600 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.3] References: <5.1.0.14.0.20020303104354.00bb3de0@pop-server.nyc.rr.com> <5.1.0.14.0.20020303122330.04941e60@pop-server.nyc.rr.com> In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.0.20020303122330.04941e60@pop-server.nyc.rr.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-Id: Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sunday 03 March 2002 11:25 am, Scott wrote: > >ad1s1f: UDMA ICRC error reading fsbn 17694848 of 8060992-8061007 > >(ad1s1 bn 17694848; cn 17554 tn 6 sn 38) retrying > > > > I searched the FBSD archives and Googled the Net, only to find > >suggestions that I had > >(A) a faulty hard drive, > >(B) a faulty IDE ribbon cable, or > >(C) electro-magnetic interference from nearby power cables or a > > coil. > > > > Hoping for a cheap and easy fix, I first tried rerouting my > > ribbon cable, to no avail. (I actually held it as far from > > everything as possible while firing up the box, but I still got > > the errors.) Since I have a few, never-been-used cables, I tried > > a couple of these -- one of each, 40- and 80-conductors. No > > dice. > > It's got to be shielded, 80 pin ATA100 (at least, or ATA 166, I've > forgotten. ) :) > Thing is, cables that come with even expensive computers are > usually cheap. On the other hand, I think I found my replacement > cable for about 3 dollars, though I did it on the web and had to > pay shipping) > > I'm willing to bet three dollars that it is the cable. :) > > Scott Well, for a few bucks, maybe I'll go out and give it a whirl, next weekend. 'Course, being basically tight, I might wait to see if there's a chipset fix that does it, first... In any event, if that doesn't do it, I'll certainly want to try the shielded cable. Thanks, to all, for the advice! -- "The truth is more important than the facts." -- Frank Lloyd Wright (1868-1959) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message