Date: Fri, 06 Dec 2002 09:48:39 -0800 From: "Kevin Oberman" <oberman@es.net> To: Darren Pilgrim <dmp@pantherdragon.org> Cc: "Thomas T. Veldhouse" <veldy@veldy.net>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ATA errors Message-ID: <20021206174839.269EC5D04@ptavv.es.net> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 06 Dec 2002 09:34:09 PST." <3DF0DF91.1050002@pantherdragon.org>
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> Date: Fri, 06 Dec 2002 09:34:09 -0800 > From: Darren Pilgrim <dmp@pantherdragon.org> > Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG > > Thomas T. Veldhouse wrote: > > Can anybody explain what has happened here? My machine seems to be > > functioning normally. > > > > ad0: READ command timeout tag=0 serv=0 - resetting > > ata0: resetting devices .. ata0-slave: ATA identify retries exceeded > > done > > This is almost always the sign of a bad cable, but it can also be the > logic board on the drive dying (though much rarer). Check your cables. > Better yet, go to your local hardware store and buy a new ATA/100-spec > cable, flat, not rounded, preferably with pull-loops. One other common source is a damaged CD. Hit that one twice last weekend and I was convinced that something was broken. Then I tried reading on a Windows system and it failed, too. :-( R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: oberman@es.net Phone: +1 510 486-8634 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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