Re: [Sheflug] CRC errors

[Richard Lowe <richlowe [at] nospam.demon.co.uk>]

* Peter Collier (pc [at] pecb.worldonline.co.uk) wrote:
> Hard disk crc error messages has been mentioned a little while ago. I 
> acknowledged the question by mentioning that I was getting the same 
> error message but at the time assumed that this was due to a long ribbon 
> cable.I managed to find another position for my hard drive, thereby 
> being able to use a standard length ribbon cable. Problem was not 
> solved, stil getting the same error messages. Some one mentioned about 
> buggy VIA chipsets, mine is a ALI.
> Setup is:-
> 	AMD K6-2 450, Gigabyte GA-5AA motherboard, 128meg PC100 ram, voodoo 2000 
> 16meg, hda=20 gig (used for Mandrake 8.0), hdb = dvd/cdr-rw, hdc = 8.4 
> gig (used for win95), hdd = 40X cdrom.
> dmesg however gives hdd = dvd/cdr the others are correct. A few lines 
> down ther dmesg file, it repeats hda, hdb etc saying what they are but 
> now gives hdd as a 40X cdrom . ?
> then I get repeated message (20 or so times) clm - 6006: writing inode 
> 34887 on readonly FS ?
> var/log/messages:- hda DriveStatusError bad CRC message repeated several 
> times.Probable hardware problem, restoring chipsetup. again many repeats.
> 	Called at my local computer shop (most of the computer internals are 
> new). they said to download bios upgrade from gigabyte and install it, 
> which I did but with no improvement.
> 	Any ideas please?
> n.b. not getting crc error message on hdc the one I use for win95.


I haven't had any more problems, since I starting avoiding heavy load on
the cdrom, and hdd at the same time.

So I'm hoping that was the cause of the problem I was having, (for
whatever reason) and that it's something that can be avoided.

But well... I dont have a clue... sorry.


(I just changed ISP's, So I'm not sure if this will arrive.. )

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