From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Tue May 19 22:48:55 2020 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.nyi.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:606c::19:1]) by mailman.nyi.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E5A0D2F73AE for ; Tue, 19 May 2020 22:48:55 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dpchrist@holgerdanske.com) Received: from holgerdanske.com (holgerdanske.com [IPv6:2001:470:0:19b::b869:801b]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) key-exchange ECDHE (P-256) server-signature RSA-PSS (4096 bits) server-digest SHA256 client-signature RSA-PSS (2048 bits) client-digest SHA256) (Client CN "holgerdanske.com", Issuer "holgerdanske.com" (not verified)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 49RWJk6B8Rz4G3K for ; Tue, 19 May 2020 22:48:54 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dpchrist@holgerdanske.com) Received: from 99.100.19.101 ([99.100.19.101]) by holgerdanske.com with ESMTPSA (TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256:TLSv1.3:Kx=any:Au=any:Enc=AESGCM(128):Mac=AEAD) (SMTP-AUTH username dpchrist@holgerdanske.com, mechanism PLAIN) for ; Tue, 19 May 2020 15:48:51 -0700 Subject: Re: OT: Weird Hardware Problem To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <0a9f810d-7b4b-f4e6-4b7c-716044a9cf69@tundraware.com> <299b37be-11af-6c0a-6957-54a788d19fe5@tundraware.com> <0df1c88e-3c7b-8c4d-6b4f-95da54a46226@holgerdanske.com> From: David Christensen Message-ID: Date: Tue, 19 May 2020 15:48:50 -0700 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:68.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/68.7.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <0df1c88e-3c7b-8c4d-6b4f-95da54a46226@holgerdanske.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Rspamd-Queue-Id: 49RWJk6B8Rz4G3K X-Spamd-Bar: ++ Authentication-Results: mx1.freebsd.org; dkim=none; dmarc=none; spf=none (mx1.freebsd.org: domain of dpchrist@holgerdanske.com has no SPF policy when checking 2001:470:0:19b::b869:801b) smtp.mailfrom=dpchrist@holgerdanske.com X-Spamd-Result: default: False [2.49 / 15.00]; RCVD_VIA_SMTP_AUTH(0.00)[]; ARC_NA(0.00)[]; MID_RHS_MATCH_FROM(0.00)[]; FROM_HAS_DN(0.00)[]; TO_MATCH_ENVRCPT_ALL(0.00)[]; NEURAL_SPAM_SHORT(0.63)[0.630]; MIME_GOOD(-0.10)[text/plain]; TO_DN_NONE(0.00)[]; PREVIOUSLY_DELIVERED(0.00)[freebsd-questions@freebsd.org]; AUTH_NA(1.00)[]; RCPT_COUNT_ONE(0.00)[1]; NEURAL_SPAM_MEDIUM(0.96)[0.961]; DMARC_NA(0.00)[holgerdanske.com]; R_SPF_NA(0.00)[no SPF record]; FROM_EQ_ENVFROM(0.00)[]; R_DKIM_NA(0.00)[]; MIME_TRACE(0.00)[0:+]; ASN(0.00)[asn:6939, ipnet:2001:470::/32, country:US]; RCVD_COUNT_TWO(0.00)[2]; RCVD_TLS_ALL(0.00)[] X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.33 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 19 May 2020 22:48:56 -0000 On 2020-05-19 11:45, David Christensen wrote: > On 2020-05-19 11:32, Tim Daneliuk wrote: >> On 5/19/20 1:23 PM, David Christensen wrote: >>> >>> I have not seen these suggestions yet: >>> >>> 1.  Have you tried connecting the system drive to another port? >>> >>> 2.  Have you tried replacing the SATA cable? >>> >>> 3.  Have you tried replacing the system drive? >> >> >> 1. and 2. are next on my list of things to try. >> >> I did try 3. albeit with the same SATA cable and port - no difference. > > Another: > > 4.  Have you tried installing an HBA and connecting the system drive to > that? > > 5.  Have you tried resetting the CMOS settings to defaults via Setup? > Via the motherboard jumper? Another: 6. Open multiple terminals, say by booting the machine with a live distribution with a graphical desktop or by using another machine with a graphical desktop, opening multiple terminals, and connecting via SSH. In one terminal, issue commands or run programs to exercise the HDD/ SSD -- 'dd if=/dev/urandom of=foo bs=1M count=1k', 'dd if=foo of=/dev/null bs=1M', etc.. In another terminal, watch for kernel error messages -- via dmesg(1) or files in /var/log. (I have more practice doing this on Debian.) David