SUMMARY: Disk Error

From: Mike's List <mikelist_at_sky.net>
Date: Fri Apr 26 2002 - 11:44:10 EDT
Fiddle around with the hardware and caught my own mistake ;)

Problem solved: (eeprom ata-dma-enabled=1)
==============
wrong IDE cable, 40/40pins (old IDE cable) instead of the newer 80/40pins
IDE cable, switch to newer cable, no more error message.


- Mike


On Thu, 25 Apr 2002, Mike's List wrote:

> Why do I keep getting the below errors? (after reboot) after I enable the
> following command "eeprom ata-dma-enabled=1" on a Sun's HCL motherboard.
> When I changed back to "eeprom ata-dma-enabled=0" everything is fine.
> 
> Motherboard is on the HCL, latest MB BIOS, Western Digital 30G HD.
> All the hardware should be up-to-date and not out-dated where DMA
> is not supported.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> 
> - Mike
> 
> 
> Apr 25 15:38:55 news1 gda: [ID 107833 kern.warning] WARNING:
>  /pci@0,0/pci-ide@7,1/ide@1/cmdk@0,0 (Disk1):
> Apr 25 15:38:55 news1 Error for command 'read sector'   Error Level:
>  Retryable
> Apr 25 15:38:55 news1 gda: [ID 107833 kern.notice]      Requested Block 0,
>  Error Block: 0
> Apr 25 15:38:55 news1 gda: [ID 107833 kern.notice]      Sense Key: bad
>  block detected
> Apr 25 15:38:55 news1 gda: [ID 107833 kern.notice]      Vendor 'Gen-ATA '
>  error code: 0x8
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