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Date:      Tue, 07 Aug 2001 00:34:12 +0100
From:      ian j hart <ianjhart@ntlworld.com>
To:        Erik Rothwell <erothwell@callgtn.com>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: ad2s1e: UDMA ICRC error reading fsbn...
Message-ID:  <3B6F2974.98C2D37B@ntlworld.com>
References:  <20010806010016.J518-100000@endymion>

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Erik Rothwell wrote:
> 
> On Sun, 5 Aug 2001, Carl Drougge wrote:
> 
> > I would say the cable. Or using UDMA66/UDMA100 on a 40 pin cable.
> > (ICRC should be the CRC of the tranfer, if I guess correctly, which means
> > the disk transfered the data correctly, but it didn't reach the controller
> > correctly. Try forcing it to use a slower mode (not that I know how..).)
> 
> The disk _appears_ to work correctly in PIO4 mode... but 16MB/s isn't
> anything to scream about. I was using an 80-conductor, 40-pin cable on my
> bootdisk (ad0, 20GB), but, I switched the cables originally so that the
> ATA66/100 cable is on the 40GB drive.
> 
> Everything works beautifully in PIO4, but, that's sort of a hollow victory
> considering how slow that works... and, what's strange is that even with
> the plethora of errors I reported-- the read/writes still complete & the
> data is all there.
> 
> Is there any way to rule out if it is the disk or the software? My BIOS is
> set to LBA mode, UDMA is enabled for ata1-master there (if it matters)...
> 
> Erik.
> 
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> E. L. Rothwell
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Did you try the Seagate UATA100.EXE tool yet?

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