UDMA ICRC error

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Hernani Marques Madeira wrote:

> Hi at all
> On Sunday 25 May 2003 09:15, David A Bestor wrote:
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>> I hit this 2 weeks ago when moving an 8gig to a 60 gig...
>> I had the errors on the new 60gig. The errors went away
>> when I changed the cable. It was connected on the IDE100
>> slot. I changed the cable to the proper cable for that
>> slot and that fixed it. I found the answer in a google
>> search.
>>   
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>
> Yes, i can confirm that. I also changed the cables & found the answer 
> on groups.google.com, too
> If you've bought a built pc-system it often happens that the cables 
> are of poor quality what would result in a falling back to PIO mode. 
> This seems to be the effect of the low data integrity that is reached 
> in conjunction with those cables.
>
> Hernani
>  
>
Cable swapping did nothing to resolve my problem (that was the first 
thing I tried) I also tried setting the DMA mode manully in the BIOS 
...no dice.