From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Feb 25 11: 4:35 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from prime.mj.com (prime.mj.com [207.5.75.138]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 358AB37B503 for ; Sun, 25 Feb 2001 11:04:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from john@mj.com) Received: from chimera.mj.com (chimera.mj.com [207.5.75.146]) by prime.mj.com (8.11.2/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f1PJ4DR61140; Sun, 25 Feb 2001 11:04:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from john@mj.com) Message-Id: <5.0.0.25.2.20010225104740.0276ed60@mail.mj.com> X-Sender: john@mail.mj.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.0 Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2001 11:04:09 -0800 To: Marco Rodrigues , From: John Mitchell Subject: Re: IBM DeskStar READ timeout errors In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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