[ale] hard drive won't mount

[James P. Kinney III]

That is a bad drive error. The reason that it worked OK under the other,
older systems was the IDE interface was not as fast as it is now. The
current IDE drivers expect the hardware to perform as it is rated. CRC
errors are indicative of a hardware problem. The data did not get
written to drive properly. Throw out the drive.

There was a drive (manufacturer escapes me) that _disabled_ the CRC in
order to get faster writes. Thet drive required special drivers for
windows and constantly failed in all Linux boxes until the "feature" was
discovered and disabled.

On Thu, 2002-06-20 at 11:43, keith frost wrote:
> that's the one that kept bitting me, only mine was
> continuous.
> in my case the kernel was so busy sending error
> messages about the bad crc that it was showing up on
> my loadmeter.  i tried the hdparam as well but with no
> luck.  in the end i went to a 2.2 based debian
> potato/sid.
> this is where i've been ever since.  i had people
> telling me to throw away the drive or send it back to
> the manufurer, that it was defective.  funny it worked
> great on the older mandrakes(w/2.2) and debian
> potato(2.2).
> 
> it's been almost a year now the drive is still going
> strong.
> 
> --- cfowler <cfowler at outpostsentinel.com> wrote:
> > I have a 7200 RPM 60GB drive on on RH7.3 sometimes I
> > get bad crc
> > errors.  These ususally come in groups.  But I have
> > not had any luck
> > turning DMA off with hdparam.
> > 
> > Chris
> 
> 
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