From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1764789AbXHANDG (ORCPT ); Wed, 1 Aug 2007 09:03:06 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1761987AbXHANCz (ORCPT ); Wed, 1 Aug 2007 09:02:55 -0400 Received: from outpipe-village-512-1.bc.nu ([81.2.110.250]:53411 "EHLO the-village.bc.nu" rhost-flags-OK-FAIL-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1761767AbXHANCz (ORCPT ); Wed, 1 Aug 2007 09:02:55 -0400 Date: Wed, 1 Aug 2007 14:10:13 +0100 From: Alan Cox To: Manuel Reimer Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Whats the problem with my IDE... Message-ID: <20070801141013.365339f0@the-village.bc.nu> In-Reply-To: References: <20070731104945.4411c85b@the-village.bc.nu> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 2.9.1 (GTK+ 2.10.13; i386-redhat-linux-gnu) Organization: Red Hat UK Cyf., Amberley Place, 107-111 Peascod Street, Windsor, Berkshire, SL4 1TE, Y Deyrnas Gyfunol. Cofrestrwyd yng Nghymru a Lloegr o'r rhif cofrestru 3798903 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > I still have those messages, but now there seem to be much less of them. > > It would really help me, if someone could tell me about how critical > such error messages are. The CRC errors are indicative of cable or similar problems but each time you see a CRC error the transmission is repeated so it should never cause corruption. If there are repeated CRC errors it will give up and use PIO instead. > With the "slimmed down" kernel of slackware, which even needs an initrd > for ext2 root devices, I don't get this errors, so currently I only get > them while installing and not while my daily work on my system... Could be one driver is upsetting another, or perhaps triggering more hardware which in turn triggers this. You'd really need to know what the extra driver which triggers the problem is ?