Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2003 08:50:13 -0500 From: Josh Paetzel <friar_josh@webwarrior.net> To: Andrew Gould <andrewgould@yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: OFF TOPIC: hard drive problems Message-ID: <20030430135013.GG44293@ns1.webwarrior.net> In-Reply-To: <20030430124215.76892.qmail@web13408.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20030430124215.76892.qmail@web13408.mail.yahoo.com>
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On Wed, Apr 30, 2003 at 05:42:15AM -0700, Andrew Gould wrote: > Is my hard drive about to fail? I've had the same > hardware for several months without a problem. While > running insert sql statements, I received the > following messages: > > ad1: write command timeout tag=0 serv=0 - resetting > ata0: resetting devices..ad0: DMA limited to UDMA33, > non-ATA66 cable or device > done > > ad1: timeout waiting for DRQ - resetting > ata0: resetting devices..ad0: DMA limited to UDMA33, > non-ATA66 cable or device > done > > I was unable to do anything after that. When the > system rebooted, it could not find FreeBSD. I could > only reboot to FreeBSD after rewriting the mount > points using disklabel from the FreeBSD 5.0 CD#1. > > This happened twice yesterday. > > I'm running FreeBSD 4.8-Stable and PostgreSQL 7.3.2. > Win2K is on the first hard drive of IDE0. FreeBSD is > on the slave hard drive of IDE0. The hard drive in > qeustion is a Western Digital 80GB ATA100 hard drive > with an 8MB buffer. All hard drives in the computer > are ATA100, which is supported by the motherboard. > > Any advice would be appreciated. > > Thanks, > > Andrew Gould www.wdc.com has diagnostic tools for your drive. You'll have to run them from windows, but that shouldn't be a big deal for you. Josh
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