ATA33.var

[Ronan KERYELL]

What is the meaning of this black magic:

# enable ultra ATA/33 modus for hard disk hda
# create etc/rcS.d/S61hdparm

# if defined, this line is executed and written to /etc/init.d/S61hdparm
hdparm='hdparm -c1 -d1 -m16 -X66 /dev/hda'

# tune harddisk during installation
[ "$hdparm " ] && eval $hdparm


Indeed I'm in trouble with messages such as :

hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
hda: dma_intr: error=0x84 { DriveStatusError BadCRC }
hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
hda: dma_intr: error=0x84 { DriveStatusError BadCRC }
hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
hda: dma_intr: error=0x84 { DriveStatusError BadCRC }
hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
hda: dma_intr: error=0x84 { DriveStatusError BadCRC }
hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
hda: dma_intr: error=0x84 { DriveStatusError BadCRC }

The PC has a ATA100 disk and use the Linux 2.4.18 of the last fai-kernels.

And since I'm ignorant in PC hardware... :-)

What can I do ?
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