From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Nov 1 11:59:38 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.thpoon.com (cr103675-a.bloor1.on.wave.home.com [24.114.152.71]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9970F37B479 for ; Wed, 1 Nov 2000 11:59:34 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 975 invoked from network); 1 Nov 2000 19:59:34 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO tea.thpoon.com) (mail@192.168.1.2) by cr103675-a.bloor1.on.wave.home.com with SMTP; 1 Nov 2000 19:59:34 -0000 Received: from antipode by tea.thpoon.com with local (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 13r42n-0001mN-00 for ; Wed, 01 Nov 2000 14:59:33 -0500 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ad0: DMA problem fallback to PIO mode; HARD READ ERROR blk# 25418687 References: From: Arcady Genkin X-Face: 0=A/O5-+sE[Tf%X>rYr?Y5LD4,:^'jaJ!4jC&UR*ZrrK2>^`g22Qeb]!:d;}2YJ|Hq"LHdF OX`jWX|AT-WVFQ(TPhFVak)0nt$aEdlOq=1~D,:\z5QlVOrZ2(H,mKg=Xr|'VlHA="r Organization: thpoon.com Mail-Copies-To: never Date: 01 Nov 2000 14:59:33 -0500 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <871ywv31lm.fsf@tea.thpoon.com> Lines: 30 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) XEmacs/21.1 (Channel Islands) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Tim McMillen writes: > Yeah that makes it a good likelihood that it is the controller. Are there > two IDE controllers on your motherboard? Try the other one. Just did. I disabled the primary one altogether. I got the same error. I don't know if this is relevant, but the error has been happening when accessing same file (I'm trying to compile Xemacs from ports). Could this mean this is a disk problem? > > I just replaced a hard drive in one computer, because the previous one > > died last night. (It was a 3.5 years old WD, so I thought that it had > > to happen). Well, I was getting these errors with the previous > > harddrive. Now I completely reinstalled the system, and I'm getting > > same error messages with the new one. > > > > ad0: HARD READ ERROR blk# 25418671 > > ad0: DMA problem fallback to PIO mode > > ad0: HARD READ ERROR blk# 25418687 status=59 error=40 > > ad0: DMA problem fallback to PIO mode > > ad0: HARD READ ERROR blk# 25418687 status=59 error=40 > > ad0: HARD READ ERROR blk# 25418687 status=59 error=40 > > > > I don't quite believe in coinsidence of identical problems happening > > to successive hard drives. The new one is a very nice 13G IBM > > DeskStar 7200rpm, 2Mb cache. -- Arcady Genkin Don't read everything you believe. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message