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Date:      Mon, 28 Feb 2005 20:15:13 +0100
From:      Anthony Atkielski <atkielski.anthony@wanadoo.fr>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: WRITE_DMA errors on SATA drive under 5.3-RELEASE
Message-ID:  <131893989.20050228201513@wanadoo.fr>
In-Reply-To: <LOBBIFDAGNMAMLGJJCKNEEJAFAAA.tedm@toybox.placo.com>
References:  <1742881516.20050227230950@wanadoo.fr> <LOBBIFDAGNMAMLGJJCKNEEJAFAAA.tedm@toybox.placo.com>

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Ted Mittelstaedt writes:

> Rule of thumb on IDE hard drives, if they show more than a few errors
> with a tool like smartmon, they need to be thrown in the garbage.

Seems prudent to me, but right now I don't have the budget to replace
this drive (yes, 40 GB IDE drives are cheap, but I don't have even
that).

-- 
Anthony




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