From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jan 16 17:31:17 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0AC2616A41F for ; Mon, 16 Jan 2006 17:31:17 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from chris@i13i.com) Received: from admin.i13i.com (admin.i13i.com [66.90.92.83]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 80BF743D77 for ; Mon, 16 Jan 2006 17:31:16 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from chris@i13i.com) Received: (qmail 63398 invoked from network); 16 Jan 2006 17:52:59 -0000 Received: from mail.i13i.com (HELO webmail.i13i.com) (208.53.187.133) by admin.i13i.com with SMTP; 16 Jan 2006 17:52:59 -0000 Received: from 195.139.252.5 (proxying for 62.92.188.12) (SquirrelMail authenticated user chris@i13i.com) by webmail.i13i.com with HTTP; Mon, 16 Jan 2006 11:52:59 -0600 (CST) Message-ID: <53453.195.139.252.5.1137433979.squirrel@webmail.i13i.com> In-Reply-To: <53086.203.107.193.254.1137430589.squirrel@203.107.193.254> References: <53086.203.107.193.254.1137430589.squirrel@203.107.193.254> Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2006 11:52:59 -0600 (CST) From: chris@i13i.com To: pkrisada@ego.co.th User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.5 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Importance: Normal Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: System or file system panic on FreeBSD 5.x X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2006 17:31:17 -0000 Thats a simple answer your HD is failing purchase a new one backup and reinstall freebsd on new drive > Hi all! > > Once i installed ``old'' FreeBSD 5.0-STABLE with UFS file system. > It had been working fine for a while without any problems but sometime > later; it showed error messages on ttyv0; each error stated >> ad1: TIMEOUT - READ_DMA retrying (2 retries left) LBA=17998815 > (each error came with variant LBA value) > I just ignored it, but these error messages were happened quite often > after the first occurrence. > Then the system was down to reboot without prompting, and this problem was > still after reboot. Again and again, the last occurence of error rendered > system unbootable. > > So I switched to FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE with UFS2 file system (fresh > installation) > It had been working fine for long. But yesterday I got the same error. > It was down to reboot and the problem still persisted after reboot. > Currently the system is still bootable, but I'm afraid that the final > result of unbootability will happen soon. > > Additional info: > # uname -a > FreeBSD bsdhost.localdomain 5.4-RELEASE FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE #0: Sun May 8 > 10:21:06 UTC 2005 > root@harlow.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386 > I have 2 IDE hard disks, ad0 is used by many systems i.e. windows, linux > 2.4.x, 2.6.x without any problems, but ad1 is only used by FreeBSD > 5.4-RELEASE (but not dangerously dedicated) > > I guess it should not be a hardware problem because fresh installation can > fix it at least for a while. > Any idea would be much appreciated. > > Thanks, > pongthep > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >