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Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2001 13:03:36 -0500 (EST)
From: Mark Hahn <hahn@physics.mcmaster.ca>
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To: Grega Fajdiga <Gregor.Fajdiga@telemach.net>
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Subject: Re: Problems with ATA hard disk(s)
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> I am a beginner when it comes to Linux, so please bear with me.

please read the FAQ.

> When I look at the HDD settings after boot, I see that almost everything is 
> turned off:

I'm guessing you've failed to set the relevant ide-related CONFIG_
settings.  you definitely want the piix driver, and almost certainly
also all the yes-really-use-dma-by-default ones.

> messages:Dec 21 16:21:27 tm-68-65 kernel: hda: dma_intr: error=0x84 { 
> DriveStatusError BadCRC }

http://www.tux.org/lkml/#s13-3

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