Do i have to worry ?

Franck Y franck110 at gmail.com
Sat Nov 5 22:20:26 UTC 2005


I m still fet this nasty messages !
But smartd tell me everythin is ok ..

On 11/4/05, Vijay Gill <vijay.s.gill at gmail.com> wrote:
> > The remedy sounds like it solved your problem, but I don't understand
> > why there mere use of the drive cache, which should be transparent,
> > should cause CRC errors directly.
> >
> > Maybe there is an underlying issue with cable length or quality vs the
> > UDMA speed in use with it... when the cache was enabled the drive could
> > spew back data fast enough to show the problem?  Just a guess that maybe
> > dropping down a UDMA level or two might also make the problem go away.
> > Although it being a VIA chipset, anything is possible or even likely.
> >
>
> I had found that solution over the net (in some obscure link after
> searching for days). I had tried changing the cable also, but it did
> not work. Anyhow, my system is as stable as it should be after I
> disabled the cached flushes (sorry I wrote cached writes earlier). My
> drive reports the following in the output of dmesg
>
> hde: cache flushes supported
>
> i run hdparm -W0 /dev/hde in /etc/rc.local to disable that.
>
> Vijay G.
>
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