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Date:      Fri, 4 Aug 2000 22:17:30 +0200 (CEST)
From:      Soren Schmidt <sos@freebsd.dk>
To:        ales@megared.net.mx (Alejandro Ramirez)
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: ATA33 Problem ???
Message-ID:  <200008042017.WAA50640@freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: <021001bffe32$152db480$02c134c8@megared.net.mx> from Alejandro Ramirez at "Aug 4, 2000 11:36:04 am"

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It seems Alejandro Ramirez wrote:
> Hi Soren,
> 
>     I have a PII-266 with 4 Quantum Fireball disks running FreeBSD
> 4.1-RELEASE, and its working as a veryloaded squid cache engine, suddenly it
> stopped working and this messages hit the console:
> 
> Aug  3 13:29:33 cache3 /kernel: ad2: WRITE command timeout - resetting
> Aug  3 13:29:33 cache3 /kernel: ata1: resetting devices .. done
> Aug  3 13:56:16 cache3 /kernel: ad4: HARD WRITE ERROR blk#

> ad0: 6149MB <QUANTUM FIREBALL ST6.4A> [13328/15/63] at ata0-master using
> UDMA33
> ad2: 6149MB <QUANTUM FIREBALL ST6.4A> [13328/15/63] at ata1-master using
> UDMA33
> ad4: 6149MB <QUANTUM FIREBALL ST6.4A> [13328/15/63] at ata2-master using
> UDMA33
> ad6: 6149MB <QUANTUM FIREBALL ST6.4A> [13328/15/63] at ata3-master using
> UDMA33
> Mounting root from ufs:/dev/ad0s1a

I've had a couble of those quantums too, they newer worked right, but
luckily they are now both dead :)
Seriously those disks are now bad in DMA mode (thats probably why they work
in DOS), so disable DMA access to them and you wil be fine...

-Søren


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