ATA question

[Michael McGoldrick]

Hi,
I recently bought a Hitachi Deskstar drive (HDS722516VLAT80) onto which I was
hoping to transfer my existing set up (since my current IBM drive has been
making some funny noises and 'lost' a partition table last year).
However, I am unable to partition this drive. I get a lot of errors like:
ad3: WARNING - READ_DMA UDMA ICRC error (retrying request) LBA=0
ad3: WARNING - READ_DMA UDMA ICRC error (retrying request) LBA=0
ad3: FAILURE - READ_DMA status=51<READY,DSC,ERROR> error=84<ICRC,ABORTED>
LBA=0
Every time I try to do anything with the drive. Fdisk whines as follows:
fdisk: can't read fdisk partition table
fdisk: /boot/mbr: length must be a multiple of sector size

The BIOS on this board does not supports 48 bit addressing and so reports the
drive as 137GB. Additionally, the mobo only supports UDMA 33.
My question is whether this might be OS related or if I have a broken drive.

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[Michael McGoldrick]

On Tue, Jan 20, 2004 at 10:43:33PM +0100, S?ren Schmidt wrote:
> Michael McGoldrick wrote:
> >Hi,
> >I recently bought a Hitachi Deskstar drive (HDS722516VLAT80) onto which I
> >was
> >hoping to transfer my existing set up (since my current IBM drive has been
> >making some funny noises and 'lost' a partition table last year).
> >However, I am unable to partition this drive. I get a lot of errors like:
> >ad3: WARNING - READ_DMA UDMA ICRC error (retrying request) LBA=0
> >ad3: WARNING - READ_DMA UDMA ICRC error (retrying request) LBA=0
> >ad3: FAILURE - READ_DMA status=51<READY,DSC,ERROR> error=84<ICRC,ABORTED>
> >LBA=0
>

> Hmm ICRC errors mean that there are cable problems of some sort.
> I cannot tell what you have since you havn't provided me with any info
> on your configuration.
> Please mail me the output of "dmesg" so I can get an idea of what we
> have here...
>
> -S?ren

Another data point; Hitachi's drive fitness test thinks the disk is OK.
I have attached a verbose dmesg, in case that provides any more information,
although I am coming to the conclusion this motherboard is just dodgy.

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[Lanny Baron]

Hi,
I noticed you are using Hitachi drives. Our experience has shown that
Hitachi has a horrendous advanced replacement warranty. Avoid them if
you can.

Lanny

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