Scenario: You use an old hard drive cable on a large hard drive like a 80 GB. This will give you a dma_intr: error=0x84 DriveStatusError BadCRC in your log file.
To fix this, you have to use a new fine rip IDE hard drive cable.
New IDE cable style has more wire
The old style IDE cable has less wire. You would use these cables to connect CD Rom Drives.
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