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Date:      Tue, 18 Feb 2003 16:53:54 -0600
From:      "Cagle, John (ISS-Houston)" <john.cagle@hp.com>
To:        "Beech Rintoul" <akbeech@northwindcom.net>
Cc:        <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>
Subject:   RE: Drive Resetting
Message-ID:  <C50AB9511EE59B49B2A503CB7AE1ABD10440E3EB@cceexc19.americas.cpqcorp.net>

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What kind of IDE cable are you using (40 or 80-conductor)?  You might
try a new cable.  Do you know which UDMA mode the ata driver is running
in?  Have you tried turning off DMA and/or write-caching?  (I think you
can use sysctl to do this.)

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> From: Beech Rintoul [mailto:akbeech@northwindcom.net]=20
> Sent: Tuesday, February 18, 2003 3:53 PM
> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org
> Subject: Drive Resetting
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> I just installed a new maxtor drive on a 200Mhz Compaq=20
> Deskpro running 5.0 setup went normally (no errors) fsck=20
> showed no errors. However, I am now getting the following=20
> under heavy disk activity:
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> Feb 18 12:32:46 stargate kernel: ad2: WRITE command timeout=20
> tag=3D0 serv=3D0 - reset ting Feb 18 12:32:46 stargate kernel:=20
> ata1: resetting devices .. Feb 18 12:32:46 stargate kernel: done
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> Anyone have any suggestions on how to fix this? Its happens=20
> frequently, especially during compiles.
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> Beech
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