After Partitioning a Drive: WARNING - WRITE_DMA UDMA ICRCerror
(retrying request)
Chuck Swiger
cswiger at mac.com
Mon Aug 8 18:53:27 GMT 2005
Mark Kane wrote:
[ ... ]
> My drives are like this
>
> PRIMARY IDE:
> Master - 160GB
> Slave - 60GB
>
> SECONDARY IDE:
> Master: TDK VeloCD CD Burner
> Slave: Sony DRU500A DVD Burner
>
> I never put optical drives on the same channel as hard drives.
>
> I was going to give Maxtor a call on the 80GB when I thought the 60GB
> was fine, but that was before I found the errors on the 60GB as well.
>
> Could something be bad on the board, or is this a FreeBSD problem, or
> other hardware?
Without another known-working mainboard to test, you can't really be sure, but
it's a hardware problem of some sort, perhaps due to poor cabling, perhaps a
marginal or failing mainboard.
If you use BIOS or atacontrol to slow down to UDMA 33 speeds, does everything
work OK?
--
-Chuck
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