ad10: WARNING - READ_DMA UDMA ICRC error (retrying request) LBA=11441599

Unix unix at dominique-werner.com
Wed Aug 10 09:26:04 GMT 2005


Matthias Buelow wrote:

>Karl Denninger wrote:
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>>SII chipsets were ok in 4.x, but the newer ATA code broke badly with them.
>>I've had a PR open on this since February, and many others have reported
>>similar issues.  The problems still exist in the 6.x-BETA releases I've
>>checked out, and are in some cases MORE severe (for me anyway) than they are
>>in 5.4.
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>Well, it doesn't affect just the SII chips.. I see the same on an
>Intel ICH6 chipset but never after the kernel has mounted the root
>fs. Sometimes it takes several attempts until it manages to do so,
>though. The machine works w/o any such problems on other OSes. I've
>deferred update of another machine (which is a hosted box and cannot
>afford random hangs at boot) because of general flakeyness of the
>ATA/SATA code in 5.4 (significantly worse than with 5.3, imho). If
>these issues don't go away completely soon (in 6.x) I'll have to
>look for some alternative system which doesn't make such a fuss
>with mainstream hardware.
>
>mkb.
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i knew about the problems with the sii chipset, had no idea it was just 
as bad with the ich6 chipset, I  have a Seagate 160gb SATA drive on an 
Intel SATA controller so far no problems though in 5.4-stable, my system 
did not like 6 at all, 7 was fine again..


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