VIA 8253 UDMA ICRC errors

[Doug White]

On Thu, 8 Apr 2004, Yura Socolov wrote:

> Following is a message i sent to -hardware last night. I have since tried
> this on -current as of today and,  since i  get the same kind of behavior, i
> thought i'd ask here as well.
>
> The errors i'm getting are like this:
>
> ad0: WARNING - WRITE_DMA UDMA ICRC error (retrying request) LBA=297945007
> ad0: WARNING - WRITE_DMA UDMA ICRC error (retrying request) LBA=297945007
> ad0: FAILURE - WRITE_DMA status=51<READY,DSC,ERROR> error=84<ICRC,ABORTED> LBA=297945007
>
> Errors seem to snowball after a few minutes after boot, unless bg fsck kicks
> in, in which case they are there right away.

Well, have you tried the usual suspects first:

. Check connections?
. Replace cable?
. Rearrange your IDE channels (isolate ad0 on its own channel, etc.)?

> This is on a Shuttle AK32VN motherboard (KT266, 8235) with a samsung 160G disk,
> but as mentioned below other VIA-based motherboads manifest the dame problems.

My Soyo KT400 at home is happy, so I don't think its afffecting *all*
vias.

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