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From: Soren Schmidt <sos@spider.deepcore.dk>
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Subject: Re: SATA drive lock-up
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It seems Derek Ragona wrote:
> I have a single SATA drive on an Adaptec 1210SA card.
> 
> The drive will give a write error warning a few times, then will repeatedly 
> give:
> ad4: timeout sending command=ca
> 
> The only recovery is the reset switch, reboot single-user fsck, and then 
> come back up in multiuser.
> 
> These errors occur with disk access, but not with a predictable nature (not 
> on large files, or small files, etc.)

And you are on an uptodate -current ?

If so I'd suspect HW ...

-Søren