Fedora Core 4 - errors at bootup

Ed Greshko Ed.Greshko at greshko.com
Mon Mar 27 00:40:52 UTC 2006


Jaysen Johnson wrote:
> I recently built a brand new Fedora Server and on boot up I noticed the
> following errors occuring.  I am not sure what they are or why they are
> appearing.  It appears to be an issue with my primary hard drive.  I run
> two 80GB Western Digital drives in a Software RAID 1.   Had anyone seen
> these errors before and if so, what can I do to fix it. 
>  
>  
> Thanks
>  
> Jaysen
>  
> hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
> hda: dma_intr: error=0x84 { DriveStatusError BadCRC }
> ide: failed opcode was: unknown

Check your cables.  Most CRC errors I've seen were caused by bad cables.
 If you can, swap the cables between drives and see if the problem
moves.  You are using properly rated cables for the IDE speeds you are
running, right?  (80 wires v.s. 40 wires)




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