From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jul 20 12: 2:33 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from hotmail.com (f29.law4.hotmail.com [216.33.149.29]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3D4BC37BB5E for ; Thu, 20 Jul 2000 12:02:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nullsleep@hotmail.com) Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Thu, 20 Jul 2000 12:02:28 -0700 Received: from 128.59.161.250 by lw4fd.law4.hotmail.msn.com with HTTP; Thu, 20 Jul 2000 GMT X-Originating-IP: [128.59.161.250] From: "Jonathon Doe" To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Please Help: HARD READ ERROR Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2000 12:02:28 PDT Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 20 Jul 2000 19:02:28.0836 (UTC) FILETIME=[0CBF4A40:01BFF27D] Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I'm getting the following message at startup: ad4: HARD READ ERROR blk# 645071ata2-master: WARNING: WAIT_READY active=ATA_ACTIVE_ATA ad4: HARD READ ERROR blk# 645071 status=59 error=40 ad4: DMA problem fallback to PIO mode and then occasionally during the session I will receieve: ad4: HARD READ ERROR blk# 645071 status=59 error=40 again... If anyone knows what the problem is and how I can fix it I would greatly appreciate a helping hand. If you post a reply please CC a copy to nullsleep@hotmail.com Thanks ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message