I've posted before about problems with a Abit KT7-RAID motherboard and a
WD Caviar 200BB drive in the ATA100 controller. I'm getting errors like
"hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 {DriveReady Seek Complete Error }" and "hda"
dma_intr: error=0x84 {DriveStatusError Bad CRC}"
Civilme from Mandrake suggested the WD drives can't handle the throughput
of the ATA100 interface. I've tried turning UDMA off in the BIOS, as well
as setting the PIO mode to 2, and using a different IDE cable (these are
the Ultra ATA/66 cables that came with this motherboard and another
similar one). I've tried a Samsung 5400 rpm drive, and now an IBM
Deskstar 7200 rpm drive, and I'm getting the same error messages. The
motherboard uses the VIA Apollo KT133 (VT8363 and VT82C686A) and the High
Point HPT370 chipsets.
At this point I'm getting desperate. Should I get a BIOS update? (I
haven't been able to find one on Abit's site). Are there BIOS settings
that can fix the problem? Is it a Linux problem with these chips?
I rand drakopt and get:
"Achieved 18.82
Best speed at 2 mult and
lookahead 4 was 18.66
for DMA setting 'UDMA2'"
I really don't know how to interpret this, but since this machine is going
to be a webserver, I can't affort data corruption.
I'm pretty desperate and would appeciate any advice.
Thanks,
Dan
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