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Date:      Mon, 1 Aug 2005 07:52:21 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Francisco Reyes <lists@natserv.com>
To:        =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Erik_N=C3=B8rgaard?= <norgaard@math.ku.dk>
Cc:        Norbert Koch <NKoch@demig.de>, questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   RE: Dead disk? READ_DMA Failure
Message-ID:  <20050801075111.M80573@zoraida.natserv.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.40.0508011341230.11718-100000@shannon.math.ku.dk>
References:  <Pine.LNX.4.40.0508011341230.11718-100000@shannon.math.ku.dk>

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On Mon, 1 Aug 2005, [ISO-8859-1] Erik N=C3=B8rgaard wrote:

>> 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.

If the problem is either a dying IDE drive or what I mention above=20
re-installing won't help, so you still need to see what's going on. In my=
=20
case I was getting the errors daily so it was easy to see if the slowdown=
=20
helped.
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