problem with UDMA mode on XP1000

Riccardo.Veraldi at fi.infn.it Riccardo.Veraldi at fi.infn.it
Wed Apr 16 01:02:12 PDT 2003


I never had problems on Miata and Monet with internal SCSI cables and
devices.

Rick


On Tue, 15 Apr 2003, Kevin A. Pieckiel wrote:

> On Mon, Apr 14, 2003 at 09:22:00AM -0400, Andrew Gallatin wrote:
>
> >   Rant aside, ATA cables are VERY sensative to EMI noise.  What's
> >   happening to you is that the cable is either badly twisted, running
> >   too close to an EMI source, or both.  This is causing the transfers
> >   across the cable between the controller and the disk to be corrupted
> >   (that's the ICRC error you're seeing).  This is NOT the fault of the
> >   software, rather its a real hardware problemn with your setup.  The
> >   software is saving you from serious disk corruption.
>
> Are these types of issues IDE specific, or are there similar issues with
> SCSI cabling as well?
>
> Kevin
>
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