Drive errors?

[Joseph Begumisa]

On Thu, 13 Nov 2003, stan wrote:

> I've got a relativly recent STABLE machine that I', gettng errors like this
> on:
>
>
> Nov 12 20:00:01 black newsyslog[33912]: logfile turned over due to size>100K
> Nov 12 20:00:07 black /kernel: ad3s1e: UDMA ICRC error writing fsbn 113202879 of 56601408-56601455 (ad3s1 bn 113202879; cn 7046 tn 141 sn 6) retrying
> Nov 12 20:00:15 black /kernel: ad3s1e: UDMA ICRC error writing fsbn 114997439 of 57498688-57498943 (ad3s1 bn 114997439; cn 7158 tn 66 sn 11) retrying
> Nov 12 20:00:16 black /kernel: ad3s1e: UDMA ICRC error writing fsbn 115000927 of 57500432-57500687 (ad3s1 bn 115000927; cn 7158 tn 121 sn 34) retrying
> Nov 12 20:00:20 black /kernel: ad3s1e: UDMA ICRC error writing fsbn 115172415 of 57586176-57586335 (ad3s1 bn 115172415; cn 7169 tn 38 sn 36) retrying
> Nov 12 20:00:22 black /kernel: ad3s1e: UDMA ICRC error writing fsbn 115188431 of 57594184-57594191 (ad3s1 bn 115188431; cn 7170 tn 37 sn 50) retrying
>
> The drive in question is an IBM/Hitachi 40H unit detected as:
>
> Nov 13 19:11:18 black /kernel: ad3: 39266MB <IC35L040AVER07-0> [79780/16/63] at ata1-slave UDMA100
>

Pasting the output from /var/run/dmesg.boot would be useful so that we can
know what the controller is detected as and also see whether there is any
other useful information concerning this problem.

The last time I had such a problem, I solved it by using a 40 pin
80 wire ribbon cable in place of the 40 pin 40 wire ribbon cable.

cheers,

Joseph.