and of course.... my old friend: hdb: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } hdb: dma_intr: error=0x84 { DriveStatusError BadCRC }
A bad cable? I had this with a CD-RW until I changed the cable.
Thought so originally. I went out to my local computer shop and spent quite a few Euros on some high quality drive cables... or so they claimed. Anyway, they are the third new set of cables in 6 months and the problem is still there.... but on a different drive now... the new drive that I am going to reformat this weekend. I am hoping that the problem will go away then.
Well, the thread has gone silent! I offer you best wishes in your experiment - please report back, and then I might summon up the nerve to do something similar!
Yah.. I'm keeping this thread in my SuSE list folder. I'll send something of a result on Sunday night. Later C.