For the record: seems that the Promise ide controller card was junk -
once I pulled it, my problems went away.
Steve Harding wrote:
I have been chasing intermittent problems with my hard disks for a while
now, and have replaced nearly everything, including drives, in an
attempt to fix them. I
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Subject:Re: IDE disk problems
Date: Wed, 05 Oct 2005 10:45:45 -0400
From: Nick Holland [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Steve Harding [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Steve Harding wrote:
Nick
pciide1:1:0: bus-master DMA error: missing interrupt, status=0x20
wd3a: device timeout writing fsbn 154732672 of 154732672-154732703 (wd3
bn 154732735; cn 153504 tn 11 sn 10), retrying
wd3: soft error (corrected)
wd3(pciide1:1:0): timeout
type: ata
c_bcount: 16384
c_skip:
On 10/4/05, Nick Holland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
You only mentioned the drives.
BTW: There are companies which sell too long IDE drive cables. If you
want to go fast, you gotta keep 'em short, and that won't work in many
boxes.
While we're on the subject of IDE cables:
* for the modern
The thing that has been bothering me is that I replaced a drive 2 months
ago because of similar errors, and wd3, which is now showing errors, is
a brand new drive.
On Tue, Oct 04, 2005 at 07:46:01AM -0600, Steve Harding wrote:
The thing that has been bothering me is that I replaced a drive 2 months
ago because of similar errors, and wd3, which is now showing errors, is
a brand new drive.
Then perhaps something else, like the card, kills drives.
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On Tue, Oct 04, 2005 at 07:46:01AM -0600, Steve Harding wrote:
The thing that has been bothering me is that I replaced a drive 2 months
ago because of similar errors, and wd3, which is now showing errors, is
a brand new drive.
Then perhaps something else, like the
On 10/4/05, Joe S [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I had a bad PC power cable (lose connectors) eat 2 drives. Replaced the
power cable and the box has had 0 problems since. I know this sounds
really weird, but CHECK every CABLE for a snug fig.
I second that. And check your PSU. I've seen (on different
I have been chasing intermittent problems with my hard disks for a while
now, and have replaced nearly everything, including drives, in an
attempt to fix them. I had convinced myself that it must be a
motherboard problem so I just swapped out to the one listed below. Disk
errors show up at the end
Steve Harding wrote:
I have been chasing intermittent problems with my hard disks for a while
now, and have replaced nearly everything,
Statements like that without an itemized list are very dangerous. You
might make someone think you really changed everything, when in reality,
you just
Dude you're disk is dying on you. Replace it ASAP.
On Oct 3, 2005, at 11:57 AM, Steve Harding wrote:
I have been chasing intermittent problems with my hard disks for a
while
now, and have replaced nearly everything, including drives, in an
attempt to fix them. I had convinced myself that it
I think he (Steve) is correct in his diagnosis, the drive being bad seems
logical however I have been chasing some problems with ioapic and interrupts
myself on a similar setup, the drive in question is attached to pciide1
which shares interrupt 17 with possibly bunch of other devices in the
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