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On Tue, 11 Dec 2001 13:52:35 -0600, Wolford, Jeff wrote:
>1) retrying the cycle using the same transfer mode is NOT very useful

Just an observation... In many hundreds of hours of doing nothing but
random write/read testing using UDMA on properly configured systems I
have seen two (2!) CRC errors and in both cases the errors did not
happen on the immediate retry of the command. In my opinion if you
are seeing a lot of CRC errors then you have a badly configured
hardware environment, probably a bad cable. Switching to MW DMA or
PIO might just expose you to undetected data transfer errors.


***  Hale Landis  *** [EMAIL PROTECTED] ***
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