What do these warning messages mean (READ_DMA UDMA ICRC error)?

bob self bobself at charter.net
Mon Sep 19 08:33:54 PDT 2005


Lowell Gilbert wrote:

>bob self <bobself at charter.net> writes:
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>>I rearanged my hard drives / dvd burner and am now seeing these
>>messages. The system SEEMS to run ok though.
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>>ad0: WARNING - READ_DMA UDMA ICRC error (retrying request) LBA=119267359
>>ad0: WARNING - READ_DMA UDMA ICRC error (retrying request) LBA=119267359
>>ad0: FAILURE - READ_DMA status=51<READY,DSC,ERROR>
>>error=84<ICRC,ABORTED> LBA=119267359
>>g_vfs_done():ad0s1f[READ(offset=44958728192, length=45056)]error = 5
>>vnode_pager_getpages: I/O read error
>>vm_fault: pager read error, pid 808 (firefox-bin)
>>ad0: WARNING - READ_DMA UDMA ICRC error (retrying request) LBA=119267359
>>ad0: WARNING - READ_DMA UDMA ICRC error (retrying request) LBA=119267359
>>ad0: WARNING - READ_DMA UDMA ICRC error (retrying request) LBA=119267519
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>If it's the same blocks all the time, you may have coincidentally
>developed a hard disk problem at the same time.  Much more likely,
>though, you've got a problem with the ATA cable for that drive.  Maybe
>it has gotten pinched or bent too sharply?
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I re-seated the cables yet again and havent seen the problem since then.


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