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Date:      Sat, 21 Jul 2001 09:14:31 -0700
From:      Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group <Cy.Schubert@uumail.gov.bc.ca>
To:        Peter Chiu <pccb@yahoo.com>
Cc:        stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: system lookup 
Message-ID:  <200107211615.f6LGFJa81906@cwsys.cwsent.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 20 Jul 2001 19:41:46 EDT." <42245809485.20010720194146@yahoo.com> 

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In message <42245809485.20010720194146@yahoo.com>, Peter Chiu writes:
> Under heavy disk read on my maxtor 40GB ata66 HD, freebsd locks up and
> the following messages show up on the console.
> 
> ad4: READ command timeout tag=0 serv=0 - resetting
> ata2: resetting devices...
> 
> At this point, the HD light is on, and the whole system locked up. I
> have to do a hardware reset to reboot the system. This problem happen
> several times and my system uptime is around 3 - 10 days because of
> this.
> 
> 1. Does anyone know what is wrong?

I had the same problems with a Western Digital disk.  You've got a bad 
disk which is marginal enough to work most of the time.  It's 
recommended that the disk be replaced before any loss of data results.  
Mine eventually failed.


Regards,                         Phone:  (250)387-8437
Cy Schubert                        Fax:  (250)387-5766
Team Leader, Sun/Alpha Team   Internet:  Cy.Schubert@osg.gov.bc.ca
Open Systems Group, ITSD, ISTA
Province of BC



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