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To: Chris BeHanna <behanna@zbzoom.net>
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Subject: Re: ahc0 data parity error
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Chris BeHanna wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 26 Jun 2002, ict technician wrote:
> 
> > I'm trying out some new motherboards and I'm getting these errors
> > when I stress the ATA disk.
> >
> > ahc0: PCI error Interrupt at seqaddr = 0x9
> > ahc0: Data Parity Error Detected during address or write data phase
> 
>     I see this all the time on my 3950U2B (which is plugged into a
> Gigabyte GA-7DX, AMD chipset), even when there's no data traffic on
> the SCSI channels.  I didn't see these on a 440BX-based motherboard.
> 
>     The only SCSI device I have in the box currently is a CD-RW, and
> I've never had errors on it.
> 

I couldn't reproduce the problem using the LEX board, so I went
with that.

If this is harmless why write a bright warning to the console?
(Not to mension filling the log file).

Thanks anyway.

-- 
ian j hart [aka ICT Technician]

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