FG

SATA drives or chipset throwing DRDY ERR and ICRC ABRT

Fresh3 days ago
Mar 15, 202633401 views
Confidence Score0%
0%

Problem

I have an SD-VIA-1A2S PCI card with 2 sata ports (and one ATA-133 that isn't used). Two new Western Digital Caviar Green drives (WD10EARS 1TB) throw repeated errors in kern.log (removed date/time/host info for brevity): I'm using Ubuntu 9.04 - 2.6.28-18-generic, though I have tried live cds of Ubun…

Unverified for your environment

Select your OS to check compatibility.

1 Fix

Canonical Fix
Unverified Fix
New Fix – Awaiting Verification

Fix for: SATA drives or chipset throwing DRDY ERR and ICRC ABRT

Low Risk

I can recommend the Promise and SiliconImage chipsets as alternatives to the VIA. I'm using a PCI adapter with a SiI-3124 chipset currently and haven't had any trouble with it. I've had good experiences with earlier IDE chipsets from both manufactur…

Awaiting Verification

Be the first to verify this fix

Sign in to verify this fix

Environment