Date: 29 Oct 2003 13:56:04 -0500 From: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org> To: Martin Schweizer <info@pc-service.ch> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ATA error messages Message-ID: <44znfjdgaj.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> In-Reply-To: <20031028212248.GH6343@saturn.pcs.ms> References: <20031028212248.GH6343@saturn.pcs.ms>
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Martin Schweizer <pcservi@spectraweb.ch> writes: > Since two days I log in /var/log/messages the following errors. What does they > mean (I now, somthing with my first harddrive... :-) )? Yep. > My System: > FreeBSD saturn.pcs.ms 4.8-RELEASE FreeBSD 4.8-RELEASE #0: Thu May 15 08:23:22 CEST > 2003 martin@saturn.spectraweb.ch:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/KERNEL48 i386 > > /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=0 serv=0 - resetting > Oct 27 09:36:59 saturn /kernel: ata0: resetting devices .. done > Oct 27 09:44:05 saturn /kernel: swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer: device: #ad/0x30001, blkno: 97360, size: 57344 > Oct 27 09:44:47 saturn /kernel: swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer: device: #ad/0x30001, blkno: 95680, size: 32768 > Oct 27 09:44:50 saturn /kernel: swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer: device: #ad/0x30001, blkno: 97880, size: 49152 > Oct 27 09:44:54 saturn /kernel: swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer: device: #ad/0x30001, blkno: 97360, size: 57344 > Oct 27 09:44:59 saturn /kernel: swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer: device: #ad/0x30001, blkno: 95680, size: 32768 > Oct 27 09:44:59 saturn /kernel: swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer: device: #ad/0x30001, blkno: 97880, size: 49152 > Oct 27 09:45:02 saturn /kernel: swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer: device: #ad/0x30001, blkno: 97360, size: 57344 > Oct 27 09:45:03 saturn /kernel: swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer: device: #ad/0x30001, blkno: 95680, size: 32768 > Oct 27 09:45:03 saturn /kernel: swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer: device: #ad/0x30001, blkno: 97880, size: 49152 > Oct 27 09:46:30 saturn /kernel: swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer: device: #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=0 serv=0 - resetting > Oct 28 09:35:49 saturn /kernel: ata0: resetting devices .. done 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.
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