dma error on startup

[Corey Taylor]

Hi all, I popped in an 80-pin cable and the error message went away!
Thanks to all for help and suggestions. Now I'm going to scan my disk to
see if there is any corruption, though I don't think there would be.

Corey

BTW it's a Seagate Barracuda ATA IV 40GB 7200RPM drive.

On Tue, 2003-12-02 at 04:33, Ow Mun Heng wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Corey Taylor [mailto:lists at versaqual.com]
> > Sent: Tuesday, December 02, 2003 2:48 PM
> > To: Fedora Users
> > Subject: RE: dma error on startup
> > 
> > 
> > The drive is not really that old. I bought it at Best Buy a few months
> > ago. Though I think it has been manufactured for a couple years now by
> > Seagate. I know it is a UDMA 100 drive, 7200RPM.
> 
> In that case, the 40pin cable _could_ be the problem. I know for a fact that
> depending on some drive firmwares, the usage of a 40pin over a 80pin
> cable(what it was designed for) would currupt the data on the drives.
> 
> HTH
> 
> OW
> 
> 
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