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From: Soren Schmidt <sos@freebsd.dk>
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Subject: Re: ATA drive failures still reported?
In-Reply-To: <36110.975332853@axl.fw.uunet.co.za> from Sheldon Hearn at "Nov 27, 2000 03:47:33 pm"
To: sheldonh@uunet.co.za (Sheldon Hearn)
Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2000 14:51:50 +0100 (CET)
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It seems Sheldon Hearn wrote:
> 
> Hi folks,
> 
> I recently had an ATA hard drive die on me.  The drive still sort of
> works, but it was sometimes not detected and its presence in my machine
> causes spontaneous reboots within 10 minutes of power-on. :-)

Yikes :)

> I just want to know whether anyone has seen the ata(4) driver report IO
> errors in a recent -CURRENT.  I would have expected a drive that's this
> badly buggered to trigger IO error warnings on the console.

What do you mean here, the reporting code is still there and works
if thats whats you're asking....

-Søren


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