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Date:      Sat, 09 Oct 2004 17:01:50 +0200
From:      des@des.no (=?iso-8859-1?q?Dag-Erling_Sm=F8rgrav?=)
To:        miha@ghuug.org
Cc:        hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: ad0: FAILURE - WRITE_DMA
Message-ID:  <xzpfz4ondep.fsf@dwp.des.no>
In-Reply-To: <200410081937.15068.miha@ghuug.org> (Mikhail P.'s message of "Fri, 8 Oct 2004 19:37:15 %2B0000")
References:  <200410081937.15068.miha@ghuug.org>

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"Mikhail P." <miha@ghuug.org> writes:
> I reloaded OS on the new drives, then restored all data from the old driv=
es.
> All seemed to be fine for 2 months now... but today I woke up, and noticed
> these messages again.

A lot of them, or just one or two?  Some ATA drives will spin down at
regular intervals to recalibrate, and you'll get a harmless timeout if
you try to write to the disk while it's doing that.

DES
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Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav - des@des.no



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