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Subject: Re: Western Digital hard drive and DMA
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Date: Sun, 8 Sep 2002 22:39:24 +0100 (BST)
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> turned off later in the boot process by hdparm. Could it be that I wasnt 
> using those 80 conductor cables, and was getting crosstalk? I guess i could 
> buy some to test that theory out...

Have a look at the number of UDMA CRC errors reported by

smartctl -a /dev/hda?

John
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