From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Dec 6 9:34:30 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8AE0A37B401; Fri, 6 Dec 2002 09:34:27 -0800 (PST) Received: from spork.pantherdragon.org (spork.pantherdragon.org [206.29.168.146]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4BFB643EA9; Fri, 6 Dec 2002 09:34:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dmp@pantherdragon.org) Received: from sparx.techno.pagans (12-224-208-117.client.attbi.com [12.224.208.117]) by spork.pantherdragon.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9C35F1005F; Fri, 6 Dec 2002 09:34:13 -0800 (PST) Received: from pantherdragon.org (speck.techno.pagans [172.21.42.2]) by sparx.techno.pagans (Postfix) with ESMTP id 023D5AA98; Fri, 6 Dec 2002 09:34:11 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <3DF0DF91.1050002@pantherdragon.org> Date: Fri, 06 Dec 2002 09:34:09 -0800 From: Darren Pilgrim User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.1) Gecko/20020826 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Thomas T. Veldhouse" Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ATA errors References: <005401c29d44$b0e24130$c00c460a@pro.tl.thomcorp.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Thomas T. Veldhouse wrote: > Can anybody explain what has happened here? My machine seems to be > functioning normally. > > ad0: READ command timeout tag=0 serv=0 - resetting > ata0: resetting devices .. ata0-slave: ATA identify retries exceeded > done This is almost always the sign of a bad cable, but it can also be the logic board on the drive dying (though much rarer). Check your cables. Better yet, go to your local hardware store and buy a new ATA/100-spec cable, flat, not rounded, preferably with pull-loops. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message