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Date:      Sun, 27 Feb 2005 20:01:24 -0500
From:      Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net>
To:        Anthony Atkielski <atkielski.anthony@wanadoo.fr>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: WRITE_DMA errors on SATA drive under 5.3-RELEASE
Message-ID:  <d7r4215khb5r6md2d32h1thk9pd54b6m26@4ax.com>
In-Reply-To: <1742881516.20050227230950@wanadoo.fr>
References:  <1561762673.20050227155330@wanadoo.fr> <dfb42110j0uhojionsp7ffi56ho7nb3d8p@4ax.com> <1742881516.20050227230950@wanadoo.fr>

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On Sun, 27 Feb 2005 23:09:50 +0100, in sentex.lists.freebsd.questions
you wrote:

>Mike Tancsa writes:
>
>> Could be a bad sector on the drive, or bad cable. Hard to say.  Try
>> /usr/ports/sysutils/smartmontools/
>>
>> It can read all sorts of info off the drive and help you narrow down
>> what the problem might be.
>
>
>The two SATA drives show no errors.  The older IDE drive (which contains
>the filesystem root) shows the stuff below.  There have been over 1000
>
>Device does not support Selective Self Tests/Logging


Try running some of the tests on the SATA drives as well as run the
monitoring daemon. With any luck, it will provide a little more
information about the error condition you are seeing.

	---Mike
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Mike Tancsa, Sentex communications http://www.sentex.net
Providing Internet Access since 1994
mike@sentex.net, (http://www.tancsa.com)



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