Date: Mon, 1 Aug 2005 13:42:41 +0200 (CEST) From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Erik_N=C3=B8rgaard?= <norgaard@math.ku.dk> To: Francisco <francisco@natserv.net> Cc: Norbert Koch <NKoch@demig.de>, questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: Dead disk? READ_DMA Failure Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.40.0508011341230.11718-100000@shannon.math.ku.dk> In-Reply-To: <20050731104901.M6839@zoraida.natserv.net>
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On Sun, 31 Jul 2005, Francisco wrote: > On Fri, 29 Jul 2005, Norbert Koch wrote: > > >> I have a one year old Hitachi Travelstar 60GB/4200RPM disk. This > >> night and since then, I get these errors: > >> ad0: TIMEOUT - READ_DMA retrying (2 retries left) LBA=48926527 > >> ad0: TIMEOUT - READ_DMA retrying (1 retry left) LBA=48926527 > >> ad0: FAILURE - READ_DMA timed out > > > I've seen these error messages too. And also WRITE_DMA TIMEOUT! > > You may have a hardware problem, but I'm not convinced. > > I don't recall if it was the exact errors, but I had some simmilar ones. > For some reason 5.4 didn't like my ATA100 drive and had to slow down the > communication speed to the drive. > > In my case I added to /usr/local/etc/rc.d a script with > > /sbin/atacontrol mode 1 udma66 pio4 > > Basically slowing down the channel to the drive.. the pio4 is for the > CDrom and that was it's normal speed. Thanks! Well, I wish that I had known that before I tried reinstalling the system. Thanks again, Erik GnuPG: http://www.locolomo.org/home/norgaard/norgaard.gpg.asc pub 1024D/11D11F9E 2003-08-15 Erik Norgaard <norgaard@locolomo.org> Key fingerprint = C394 81C4 D137 EEE5 39BE 82D5 3E6B FB3E 11D1 1F9E
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