From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Aug 1 11:42:47 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: questions@freebsd.org 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 AED0D16A41F for ; Mon, 1 Aug 2005 11:42:47 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from norgaard@math.ku.dk) Received: from imf.math.ku.dk (fw.math.ku.dk [130.225.103.21]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4F06643D48 for ; Mon, 1 Aug 2005 11:42:47 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from norgaard@math.ku.dk) Received: from imf.math.ku.dk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by imf.math.ku.dk (Postfix) with ESMTP id 84C611E4CE; Mon, 1 Aug 2005 13:42:41 +0200 (CEST) Received: from shannon.math.ku.dk (shannon.math.ku.dk [130.225.103.12]) by imf.math.ku.dk (Postfix) with ESMTP; Mon, 1 Aug 2005 13:42:41 +0200 (CEST) Date: Mon, 1 Aug 2005 13:42:41 +0200 (CEST) From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Erik_N=C3=B8rgaard?= To: Francisco In-Reply-To: <20050731104901.M6839@zoraida.natserv.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Cc: Norbert Koch , questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: Dead disk? READ_DMA Failure X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 01 Aug 2005 11:42:47 -0000 On Sun, 31 Jul 2005, Francisco wrote: > On Fri, 29 Jul 2005, Norbert Koch wrote: > > >> I have a one year old Hitachi Travelstar 60GB/4200RPM disk. This > >> night and since then, I get these errors: > >> ad0: TIMEOUT - READ_DMA retrying (2 retries left) LBA=48926527 > >> ad0: TIMEOUT - READ_DMA retrying (1 retry left) LBA=48926527 > >> ad0: FAILURE - READ_DMA timed out > > > I've seen these error messages too. And also WRITE_DMA TIMEOUT! > > You may have a hardware problem, but I'm not convinced. > > I don't recall if it was the exact errors, but I had some simmilar ones. > For some reason 5.4 didn't like my ATA100 drive and had to slow down the > communication speed to the drive. > > In my case I added to /usr/local/etc/rc.d a script with > > /sbin/atacontrol mode 1 udma66 pio4 > > Basically slowing down the channel to the drive.. the pio4 is for the > CDrom and that was it's normal speed. Thanks! Well, I wish that I had known that before I tried reinstalling the system. Thanks again, Erik GnuPG: http://www.locolomo.org/home/norgaard/norgaard.gpg.asc pub 1024D/11D11F9E 2003-08-15 Erik Norgaard Key fingerprint = C394 81C4 D137 EEE5 39BE 82D5 3E6B FB3E 11D1 1F9E