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From: Brent <brent@kearneys.ca>
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Subject: Re: large IDE hdd probs 
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I believe I found the solution to my problem: a bad power cable from the
power supply to the drive.  I've switched to another (had to sacrifice my
cdrom :\), and I haven't had an error since.

-Brent

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Date: Sat, 10 Jul 1999 13:06:35 -0700 (PDT)
From: Brent <brent@kearneys.ca>
To: questions@freebsd.org
Subject: large IDE hdd probs


I recently installed a Quantum CR 13GB IDE drive on my FreeBSD 3.2-Rel.
box.  I have since been having some weird problems.  Here are the symtoms:

- It makes the sound of a hard drive "waking up" from auto-power off,
although the APM features are all disabled in my CMOS -- it makes this
sound occassionally after a reboot, then progressively more regularly
until it is in nearly constant repetition, before FreeBSD hangs up.  It
isn't necessarily going to "sleep", I'm just discribing the sound it
makes.

- These are the error messages I'm getting:

Jul 10 08:32:39 ThePalace /kernel: wd2: interrupt timeout (status
58<rdy,seekdone,drq> error 0)
Jul 10 08:32:39 ThePalace /kernel: wd2: wdtimeout() DMA status 4
Jul 10 08:32:55 ThePalace /kernel: wd2: interrupt timeout (status
58<rdy,seekdone,drq> error 1<no_d
am>)

... repeated several times, and then:

Jul 10 08:33:39 ThePalace /kernel: wd2: wdunwedge failed (status
90<busy,seekdone> error 90<badblk, no_id>) 
Jul 10 08:39:32 ThePalace /kernel: wd2s3c: wdstart: timeout waiting to
give command reading fsbn 10 690080 of 10690080-10690319 (wd2s3 bn
10690080; cn 10605 tn 3 sn 51) (status 90<busy,seekdone> erro r
90<badblk,no_id>)
Jul 10 08:40:14 ThePalace /kernel: wd2: Last time I say: interrupt
timeout.  Probably a portable PC . (status 58<rdy,seekdone,drq> error
1<no_dam>)

... repeated constantly, although I am able to r/w to the drive without
problems, also:

Jul 10 12:23:16 ThePalace /kernel: atapi1:1: ERROR 6, status=0, error=0
Jul 10 12:23:16 ThePalace last message repeated 2 times

... indefinitately.  

As I said, power management is disabled in the BIOS, not sure what else I
can do.  Thanks for any suggestions.

-Brent




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