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Date:      Sun, 2 Nov 2003 13:28:39 +0100
From:      Martin Schweizer <pcservi@spectraweb.ch>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Cc:        Martin Schweizer <info@pc-service.ch>
Subject:   Re: ATA error messages
Message-ID:  <20031102122839.GF613@saturn.pcs.ms>
In-Reply-To: <44znfjdgaj.fsf@be-well.ilk.org>
References:  <20031028212248.GH6343@saturn.pcs.ms> <44znfjdgaj.fsf@be-well.ilk.org>

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Hello Lowell

Thank you for your quick answer. I checked the IDE and power cable and now =
the=20
errors are gone!

Am Wed, Oct 29, 2003 at 01:56:04PM -0500 Lowell Gilbert schrieb:
> Martin Schweizer <pcservi@spectraweb.ch> writes:
>=20
> > Since two days I log in /var/log/messages the following errors. What do=
es they=20
> > mean (I now, somthing with my first harddrive... :-) )?
>=20
> Yep.
>=20
> > My System:=20
> > FreeBSD saturn.pcs.ms 4.8-RELEASE FreeBSD 4.8-RELEASE #0: Thu May 15 08=
:23:22 CEST=20
> > 2003     martin@saturn.spectraweb.ch:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/KERNEL48  i386
> >=20
> > /var/log/messages:
> > Oct 27 09:36:59 saturn /kernel: ata0: resetting devices .. done
> > Oct 27 09:36:59 saturn /kernel: ad0: READ command timeout tag=3D0 serv=
=3D0 - resetting
> > Oct 27 09:36:59 saturn /kernel: ata0: resetting devices .. done
> > Oct 27 09:44:05 saturn /kernel: swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer: dev=
ice: #ad/0x30001, blkno: 97360, size: 57344
> > Oct 27 09:44:47 saturn /kernel: swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer: dev=
ice: #ad/0x30001, blkno: 95680, size: 32768
> > Oct 27 09:44:50 saturn /kernel: swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer: dev=
ice: #ad/0x30001, blkno: 97880, size: 49152
> > Oct 27 09:44:54 saturn /kernel: swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer: dev=
ice: #ad/0x30001, blkno: 97360, size: 57344
> > Oct 27 09:44:59 saturn /kernel: swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer: dev=
ice: #ad/0x30001, blkno: 95680, size: 32768
> > Oct 27 09:44:59 saturn /kernel: swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer: dev=
ice: #ad/0x30001, blkno: 97880, size: 49152
> > Oct 27 09:45:02 saturn /kernel: swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer: dev=
ice: #ad/0x30001, blkno: 97360, size: 57344
> > Oct 27 09:45:03 saturn /kernel: swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer: dev=
ice: #ad/0x30001, blkno: 95680, size: 32768
> > Oct 27 09:45:03 saturn /kernel: swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer: dev=
ice: #ad/0x30001, blkno: 97880, size: 49152
> > Oct 27 09:46:30 saturn /kernel: swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer: dev=
ice: #ad/0x30001, blkno: 51216, size: 4096
> > Oct 28 09:35:45 saturn /kernel: ata0: resetting devices .. done
> > Oct 28 09:35:49 saturn /kernel: ad0: READ command timeout tag=3D0 serv=
=3D0 - resetting
> > Oct 28 09:35:49 saturn /kernel: ata0: resetting devices .. done
>=20
> These are all various kinds of reports of the disk not reporting back
> by the time the system expected it to do so.  The usual first culprit
> to check is the drive cable.  I've been getting the command timeouts
> on -STABLE for the last few weeks, and I'm figuring that the drive is
> probably on its way out -- but that it might take months to get there.

--=20

Regards

Martin Schweizer
<info@pc-service.ch>

PC-Service M. Schweizer; Gewerbehaus Schwarz; CH-8608 Bubikon
Tel. +41 55 243 30 00; Fax: +41 55 243 33 22; http://www.pc-service.ch;
public key : http://www.pc-service.ch/pgp/public_key.asc;=20
fingerprint: EC21 CA4D 5C78 BC2D 73B7  10F9 C1AE 1691 D30F D239;


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