Daniel Axtell wrote:
>
> I just finished installing Mandrake 8.0 a new WD 200bb Caviar drive.
> After rebooting the first time, the console came up with this error
> message:
>
> hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady Seek Complete Error}
> hda: dma_intr: error=0x84 { DriveStatusError BadCRC }
>
> The drive is brand new, but the motherboard has been used for a couple of
> months (it's an ABit KT7-RAID with the Via KT133 chipset). With the
> previous harddrive (also a WD Caviar) I occasionally got this message, but
> the machine never gave me any problems. Now that I'm turning it into a
> webserver I'm a little concerned.
>
> Is this something is likely to go away with a kernel upgrade (I'm using
> the stock 2.4.3-20 kernel, but plan to upgrade it to the latest soon), or
> by upgrading the BIOS, changing BIOS settings, or is it a potentially
> dangerous hardware error?
>
> Any help is greatly appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
> Dan
>
Hmmm, did you ever have LMDK8.0 running while using the KT133 chipset on
your ABIT M/B? The ABIT M/B most likely uses the 686B South Bridge chip,
and I could never get Mandrake to work unless the kernal version was at
least 2.4.7 or above. Even now, with 8.1 beta3, kernel 2.4.8-18, I am
having a bear of a time (just look at what OS I am using now). Some
boards with 686B will run Mandrake, and some will not, like the Tyan I
am using. Not sure if this is happening to you but I thought I better
share this info....
drjung
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