From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Mar 3 16:56:20 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ns1.hutchtel.net (ns1.hutchtel.net [206.9.112.100]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 29A0C37B718 for ; Sat, 3 Mar 2001 16:56:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jpaetzel@hutchtel.net) Received: from mark9 (hutch-954.hutchtel.net [209.105.45.54]) by ns1.hutchtel.net (8.9.1/8.9.0) with SMTP id SAA19848; Sat, 3 Mar 2001 18:55:48 -0600 (CST) Message-ID: <006201c0a50f$06dfda00$6100000a@vladsempire.net> From: "Josh Paetzel" To: , References: <200103031412.TAA09907@ns1.netzone.net.pk> Subject: Re: HDD Error -- Please Help Date: Sun, 4 Mar 2001 18:55:23 -0600 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG ----- Original Message ----- From: To: Sent: Saturday, March 03, 2001 3:08 AM Subject: HDD Error -- Please Help > Hi Everyone, > > I installed FreeBSD 4.1-RELEASE on an AMD P5C 133 MHz with 32 > MB of RAM and a 4GB Approx HDD. The name of the HDD, as the kernel detects > at the time of startup is as follows: > > ad0: 3832 < Quantum Bigfoot TX4.0AT > > > FreeBSD is having problems mounting it, it spews forth the following > messages before finally mounting it: > > ad0: READ command timeout - resetting > ata0: resetting devices .. done > ad0: READ command timeout - resetting > ata0: resetting devices .. done > ad0: READ command timeout - resetting > ata0: resetting devices .. done > ad0: READ command timeout - resetting > ata0-master: WARNING: WAIT_READY active=ATA_ACTIVE_ATA. > ad0: trying fallback to PIO mode > ata0: resetting devices .. done > > After the above sessing of hit and miss it finally boots. Its not a fatal > error but it takes a couple of minutes and thats annoying. If anyone knows > how to fix this, I will be pleased to know how. I installed the same > version of FreeBSD on an IBM HDD with a capacity of 10.1 GB with a speed of > 7200 RPM and nothing like this happens. > > Thanks in Advance! > > Best Regards, > Assad Khan. > > It's hating your hard drive controller, not your hard drive. Replace it. Josh > > > --------------------------------------------------------- > This message sent using EMUmail -- http://www.emumail.com > --------------------------------------------------------- > > Jumping through hoops to get E-mail on the road? > You've got two choices: Join the circus, or use MollyMail. > > Molly Mail -- http://www.mollymail.com > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message