From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Feb 25 12:14:14 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mail.snickers.org (snickers.org [216.126.90.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 00A8E37B401 for ; Sun, 25 Feb 2001 12:14:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from drkangel@drkangel.org) Received: from spike (spike [216.126.90.2]) by mail.snickers.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2CDE33D47; Sun, 25 Feb 2001 15:14:10 -0500 (EST) Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2001 15:14:10 -0500 (EST) From: Marco Rodrigues X-X-Sender: To: John Mitchell Cc: Subject: Re: IBM DeskStar READ timeout errors In-Reply-To: <5.0.0.25.2.20010225104740.0276ed60@mail.mj.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I've done that already. It's fine. The drive works fine when I change the kernel state for hw.atamodes from dma to pio, but it's slow as hell. (obviously) -- "Sanity is calming, but madness is far more interesting." On Sun, 25 Feb 2001, John Mitchell wrote: > At 11:07 02/25/2001 -0500, you wrote: > >Greetings List, > > > > I recently bought a 45 GB IBM Deskstar. As with all new HD's I ran > >some tests on it. Bonnie for example. The problem I keep getting is the > >following, and it only happens when I try reading from the disk. > > > >ad5: READ command timeout - resetting > >ata2: resetting devices.. > > > > > >The machine locks up and I have to run FSCK on the disk. The disk works > >fine in Windows 2000 on the same machine. Does anyone know of any issues > >is FreeBSD or configuration options I should have enabled/disabled? I'm > >using FreeBSD 4.2 - STABLE with the basic kernel added, with the > >exception of some options but those only deal with firewall/network > >options. > > I would strongly suggest downloading the Drive Fitness Test > application available from the IBM tech support site at > http://www.storage.ibm.com/techsup/hddtech/welcome.htm > to ensure you don't have some obscure drive hardware problem. > This download creates a self booting diskette to run the utility. > > Good luck. > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message