From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Dec 6 9:48:44 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 5061437B401 for ; Fri, 6 Dec 2002 09:48:43 -0800 (PST) Received: from postal2.es.net (postal2.es.net [198.128.3.206]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A419F43EBE for ; Fri, 6 Dec 2002 09:48:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from oberman@es.net) Received: from ptavv.es.net ([198.128.4.29]) by postal2.es.net (Postal Node 2) with ESMTP id MUA74016; Fri, 06 Dec 2002 09:48:41 -0800 Received: from ptavv (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ptavv.es.net (Tachyon Server) with ESMTP id 269EC5D04; Fri, 6 Dec 2002 09:48:39 -0800 (PST) To: Darren Pilgrim Cc: "Thomas T. Veldhouse" , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ATA errors In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 06 Dec 2002 09:34:09 PST." <3DF0DF91.1050002@pantherdragon.org> Date: Fri, 06 Dec 2002 09:48:39 -0800 From: "Kevin Oberman" Message-Id: <20021206174839.269EC5D04@ptavv.es.net> 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 > Date: Fri, 06 Dec 2002 09:34:09 -0800 > From: Darren Pilgrim > Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@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. One other common source is a damaged CD. Hit that one twice last weekend and I was convinced that something was broken. Then I tried reading on a Windows system and it failed, too. :-( R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: oberman@es.net Phone: +1 510 486-8634 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message