Re: DMA errors on hard drive, but why?

2002-06-19 Thread James Green
On Monday 17 June 2002 12:44 am, Rick Commo wrote: [ large snip ] > So... Before you used the caddies, were you running a 40 wire or 80 wire > (40 signal/ground pairs) cable? I would then wonder how adding a caddy > might affect the ground return paths for the signals. The problem could > potenti

Re: DMA errors on hard drive, but why?

2002-06-19 Thread Paul Scott,,,
Ron Johnson wrote: On Sun, 2002-06-16 at 06:23, James Green wrote: Hi all, I've got two Maxtor IDE hard drives. They have been working fine, but since I moved them into drive caddies I've been getting the following messages in dmesg output for the second drive: [snip] What shoul

RE: DMA errors on hard drive, but why?

2002-06-16 Thread Rick Commo
uot; IDE components. Again, apologies to all for the length. Cheers, -rick -Original Message- From: James Green [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, June 16, 2002 4:24 AM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: DMA errors on hard drive, but why? Hi all, I've got two Maxtor IDE

Re: DMA errors on hard drive, but why?

2002-06-16 Thread Ron Johnson
On Sun, 2002-06-16 at 06:23, James Green wrote: > Hi all, > > I've got two Maxtor IDE hard drives. They have been working fine, but since I > moved them into drive caddies I've been getting the following messages in > dmesg output for the second drive: [snip] > What should I do to diagnose this

DMA errors on hard drive, but why?

2002-06-16 Thread James Green
Hi all, I've got two Maxtor IDE hard drives. They have been working fine, but since I moved them into drive caddies I've been getting the following messages in dmesg output for the second drive: cyberstorm:~# dmesg | grep hdb ide0: BM-DMA at 0xdc00-0xdc07, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:DMA hd