From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Apr 13 8:24:41 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from pimout2-int.prodigy.net (pimout2-ext.prodigy.net [207.115.63.101]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6C5D337BD4E for ; Thu, 13 Apr 2000 08:24:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from troyml@prodigy.net) Received: from prodigy.net (MINNA030-0366.splitrock.net [63.253.193.112]) by pimout2-int.prodigy.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id LAA46302 for ; Thu, 13 Apr 2000 11:24:29 -0400 Message-ID: <38F5E68B.2E3FD44B@prodigy.net> Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2000 10:23:55 -0500 From: Troy X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.0-STABLE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: ata error message Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I am receiving an error message that is upsetting me and I'm concerned that i may be losing data or having it corrupted although I can't say so with certainty. The error message goes as follows Apr 12 11:33:19 localhost /kernel: ad0: WRITE command timeout - resetting Apr 12 11:33:19 localhost /kernel: ata0: resetting devices .. done It seems to occur during periods of high disk activity, especially when trying to build ports, etc... perhaps unrelated, but often the build of these ports fails further down the line, although that could just be due to my ignorance of other matters :) Please CC: any responses to my question directly to my email address as this mailing list generates too much traffic for me to follow it. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message