Drive errors?

Joseph Begumisa begj at trueafrican.com
Fri Nov 14 06:25:40 PST 2003


> atapci0: <VIA 82C686 ATA100 controller> port 0xa000-0xa00f at device 7.1 on pci0
> atapci0: Correcting VIA config for southbridge data corruption bug
> ata0: at 0x1f0 irq 14 on atapci0
> ata1: at 0x170 irq 15 on atapci0
> ad3: 39266MB <IC35L040AVER07-0> [79780/16/63] at ata1-slave UDMA100

Well the OS sees an ATA100 Controller which is good.  So i guess you could
first look into the issue of the ribbon cable as mentioned below so that
we can eliminate that.


> >
> > 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.
>
> I'll check that, but given that its a new drive I suspect it already has an
> 80 wire cable.
>
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Joseph.


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