From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Nov 26 23:25:52 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2809B16A4CE for ; Wed, 26 Nov 2003 23:25:52 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.komvista.lt (ns.komvista.lt [213.190.36.87]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EBC2E43FF3 for ; Wed, 26 Nov 2003 23:25:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ssmailys@komvista.lt) Received: by mail.komvista.lt (Postfix, from userid 23) id 27D4EBE05; Thu, 27 Nov 2003 09:25:46 +0200 (EET) Received: from red.komvista.lt (unknown [192.168.127.78]) by mail.komvista.lt (Postfix) with ESMTP id 067CBBDFF; Thu, 27 Nov 2003 09:25:45 +0200 (EET) Date: Thu, 27 Nov 2003 09:25:54 +0200 From: Stasys Smailys To: Dan Langille Message-ID: <20031127072554.GA742@red.komvista.lt> References: <3FC518DD.13152.21B7C5AD@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; Format=Flowed; DelSp=Yes; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <3FC518DD.13152.21B7C5AD@localhost> (from dan@langille.org on Thu, Nov 27, 2003 at 04:19:25 +0200) X-Mailer: Balsa 2.0.15 Lines: 13 cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ad0 READ timeout X-BeenThere: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Mobile computing with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 27 Nov 2003 07:25:52 -0000 On 11/27/2003 04:19:25, Dan Langille wrote: > My laptop stopped booting yesterday. It displays a few "ad0: READ > command timeout tag=0 serv=0 - resetting" messages before it gives > up. > Is this a dead drive? May be yes, may be not. I would say it seems IDE controller is dead. Just to make sure that HDD is alive try DFT. You can download it from here: http://www.hgst.com/hdd/support/download.htm. -- Stasys Smailys