From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Mar 30 9:55:59 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail8.nc.rr.com (fe8.southeast.rr.com [24.93.67.55]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 65EDB37B718 for ; Fri, 30 Mar 2001 09:55:55 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jason@monsterjam.org) Received: from monsterjam.org ([66.26.242.255]) by mail8.nc.rr.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.5.1877.537.53); Fri, 30 Mar 2001 12:52:59 -0500 Received: (qmail 56552 invoked by uid 1001); 30 Mar 2001 17:55:55 -0000 Received: from localhost (sendmail-bs@127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 30 Mar 2001 17:55:55 -0000 Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2001 12:55:55 -0500 (EST) From: Jason W To: Hal Weaver Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: hard disk problems? In-Reply-To: <3AC4C601.150B5899@pinetel.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Actually, it WAS a physical disk problem.. I rebooted the system without the ide cable attached to the drive and after a while the drive started to make those ticking noises. I got WD to send me a new drive. My system has been happy since. Jason -- ======================================== | Jason Welsh jason@monsterjam.org | | http://monsterjam.org | ======================================== "I'd love to go out with you, but it's my parakeet's bowling night." On Fri, 30 Mar 2001, Hal Weaver wrote: > Jason, I found the following query in this list's archives written by > you on Nov. 4, 2000: > > >I have a brand new (few months old) western digital EIDE hard drive in my > >system. I am running > >FreeBSD welsh.dynip.com 4.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 4.1-RELEASE #1: Fri Sep 8 > >22:19:09 EST 2000 root@welsh.dynip.com:/usr/src/sys/compile/ROLAND > >i386 > > > >and all of a sudden I am getting a lot of error messages in my syslog > >refering to the hard drive and I hear the hard drive "ticking" off and on > >when there is much disk activity (ftp). The messages are > > I have the same symptoms on my laptop's removeable IBM EIDE drive. Did > you find a fix? > > You further quoted somebody who said: > > >"There is a work-around if you are installing FreeBSD 4.0 stable onto an > >existing system: add > > /sbin/sysctl -w hw.atamodes=pio,pio,pio,pio > > to the beginning (just after #!/bin/sh) of /etc/rc and also /root/.login > >(for csh) and /root/profile (for sh)." > > Having tried that, the final boot message before the login prompt said > something like: > > hw.atamodes=pio,pio > > ... telling me that this attempted fix was rejected. > > I'd appreciate knowing how you solved this hard disk problem. > > Thanks in advance. > > Hal > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message