Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756126AbYAVUqo (ORCPT ); Tue, 22 Jan 2008 15:46:44 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751393AbYAVUqf (ORCPT ); Tue, 22 Jan 2008 15:46:35 -0500 Received: from nf-out-0910.google.com ([64.233.182.187]:43318 "EHLO nf-out-0910.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753240AbYAVUqe (ORCPT ); Tue, 22 Jan 2008 15:46:34 -0500 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:sender:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references:x-google-sender-auth; b=lDPm18V6B2026lJse6vwcXFEMJLNXIxWFb7cFd3ai+F8i9WKACGpOSV/0HfIxlJ+2FTyHm4i838/SiT1oJNO0cGjAODnW3JN4AttU8KnePxxo26uD0Y4Ypve6hdbkSX2MhnYy5rMUM4N7g45pKXEYqqOJk8SCt+BunQ27wDv0mU= Message-ID: <2c0942db0801221246u678d2a20xef9cf93ee28eaf51@mail.gmail.com> Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2008 12:46:32 -0800 From: "Ray Lee" To: "Manuel Reimer" , "Jeff Garzik" Subject: Re: Massive IDE problems. Who leaves data here? Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <47965138.8060603@garzik.org> X-Google-Sender-Auth: 073d82013b948dc9 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1176 Lines: 26 (Please always do a reply-to-all for this email list.) On Jan 22, 2008 12:40 PM, Manuel Reimer wrote: > Jeff Garzik wrote: > > If your IDE interface is complaining about BadCRC errors, then it's > > complaining about hardware problems (bad cable, etc.) > > The cable already has been replaced three times. I even got sure to > *not* bend the cable. This all doesn't help. > > May a bad cable really cause corrupted data? > > I also have such messages for my cdrom drive (the bad sector messages at > the end of the log for drive hdc). I replaced the 40 pin cable with a > new 80 pin one and still have the errors... Bad or almost bad power supplies can cause lots of unhappy problems such as these. If you have another power supply laying around, it can be worth swapping them out. Double-checking that your CPU fan is still spinning, and that memtest86+ doesn't show any errors doesn't hurt either. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/