From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Oct 24 11:12:46 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from smtpproxy1.mitre.org (smtpproxy1.mitre.org [129.83.20.90]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 501E037B50B for ; Wed, 24 Oct 2001 11:12:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: from avsrv1.mitre.org (avsrv1.mitre.org [129.83.20.58]) by smtpproxy1.mitre.org (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f9OICQ821979; Wed, 24 Oct 2001 14:12:26 -0400 (EDT) Received: from MAILHUB2 (mailhub2.mitre.org [129.83.221.18]) by smtpsrv1.mitre.org (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f9OICPs06502; Wed, 24 Oct 2001 14:12:25 -0400 (EDT) Received: from dhcp-105-164.mitre.org (128.29.105.164) by mailhub2.mitre.org with SMTP id 8153337; Wed, 24 Oct 2001 14:01:58 -0400 Message-ID: <3BD70217.1DA42A5@mitre.org> Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2001 14:01:59 -0400 From: Jason Andresen Organization: The MITRE Corporation X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en]C-20000818M (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Peter C. Verhage" Cc: Chris BeHanna , stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Input/output Error References: <20011024122958.K27403-100000@topperwein.dyndns.org> <002f01c15cab$516dd500$0200000a@peter> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG "Peter C. Verhage" wrote: > > "Fortunately" it looks like a harddisk problem. When I got home today (I > wasn't at home the past few days but I monitored the box from another place, > and called home if someone wanted to reboot the computer :P), I quickly > checked everything and rebooted (again) and when I wanted to login I heared > a loud clicking noise and after that it looked like the harddisk got in > suspend mode and back in normal mode again (very weird) but FreeBSD reported > also (in the main window) an issue with "ata....". After booting the system > (which it magically still did, and until now it's still running > 30 > minutes) I quickly checked dmesg and saw the following report: > > ad0: 9787MB [19885/16/63] at ata0-master UDMA33 > Mounting root from ufs:/dev/ad0s1a > ad0: READ command timeout tag=0 serv=0 - resetting > ata0: resetting devices .. done > > So it looks to me it really is something with the harddisk. Or isn't it? You might want to make sure your cables are firmly attached to the HD and the Motherboard, and that the HD isn't getting too hot. I used to have that happen with my old WD drives. They wern't getting enough air and experienced little mini thermal shutdowns intermittantly. Rearranging the drives (and flashing their firmware) fixed the problem. Still, a loud clicking noise from a HD is generally a bad sign. I'd recommend backing that drive up ASAP and perhaps star looking into buying a replacement. -- \ |_ _|__ __|_ \ __| Jason Andresen jandrese@mitre.org |\/ | | | / _| Network and Distributed Systems Engineer _| _|___| _| _|_\___| Office: 703-883-7755 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message