From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Nov 2 04:22:12 2003 Return-Path: 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 7F04A16A4CE for ; Sun, 2 Nov 2003 04:22:12 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail4.bluewin.ch (mail4.bluewin.ch [195.186.4.74]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2AD2343FAF for ; Sun, 2 Nov 2003 04:22:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from martin@saturn.pcs.ms) Received: from saturn.pcs.ms (62.203.135.29) by mail4.bluewin.ch (Bluewin AG 7.0.020) id 3F8C00BC00280CD3; Sun, 2 Nov 2003 12:21:59 +0000 Received: (from root@localhost) by saturn.pcs.ms (8.12.8p1/8.12.8) id hA2CStdC046207; Sun, 2 Nov 2003 13:28:55 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from martin@saturn.pcs.ms) Received: from saturn.pcs.ms (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by saturn.pcs.ms (8.12.8p1/8.12.8av) with ESMTP id hA2CSerT046194; Sun, 2 Nov 2003 13:28:41 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from martin@saturn.pcs.ms) Received: (from martin@localhost) by saturn.pcs.ms (8.12.8p1/8.12.8/Submit) id hA2CSdtg046193; Sun, 2 Nov 2003 13:28:39 +0100 (CET) Date: Sun, 2 Nov 2003 13:28:39 +0100 From: Martin Schweizer To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20031102122839.GF613@saturn.pcs.ms> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Martin Schweizer References: <20031028212248.GH6343@saturn.pcs.ms> <44znfjdgaj.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="p8PhoBjPxaQXD0vg" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <44znfjdgaj.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Organization: PC-Service M. Schweizer, CH-8608 Bubikon, Switzerland X-PGP-Key: http://www.pc-service.ch/pgp/public_key.asc X-Fingerprint: EC21 CA4D 5C78 BC2D 73B7 10F9 C1AE 1691 D30F D239 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-7.0 required=3.0 tests=IN_REP_TO,PGP_SIGNATURE_2,QUOTED_EMAIL_TEXT,REFERENCES, REPLY_WITH_QUOTES,USER_AGENT_MUTT version=2.55 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.55 (1.174.2.19-2003-05-19-exp) X-Virus-Scanned: by AMaViS perl-11 cc: Martin Schweizer Subject: Re: ATA error messages X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: Martin Schweizer List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 02 Nov 2003 12:22:12 -0000 --p8PhoBjPxaQXD0vg Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hello Lowell Thank you for your quick answer. I checked the IDE and power cable and now = the=20 errors are gone! Am Wed, Oct 29, 2003 at 01:56:04PM -0500 Lowell Gilbert schrieb: > Martin Schweizer writes: >=20 > > Since two days I log in /var/log/messages the following errors. What do= es they=20 > > mean (I now, somthing with my first harddrive... :-) )? >=20 > Yep. >=20 > > My System:=20 > > FreeBSD saturn.pcs.ms 4.8-RELEASE FreeBSD 4.8-RELEASE #0: Thu May 15 08= :23:22 CEST=20 > > 2003 martin@saturn.spectraweb.ch:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/KERNEL48 i386 > >=20 > > /var/log/messages: > > Oct 27 09:36:59 saturn /kernel: ata0: resetting devices .. done > > Oct 27 09:36:59 saturn /kernel: ad0: READ command timeout tag=3D0 serv= =3D0 - resetting > > Oct 27 09:36:59 saturn /kernel: ata0: resetting devices .. done > > Oct 27 09:44:05 saturn /kernel: swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer: dev= ice: #ad/0x30001, blkno: 97360, size: 57344 > > Oct 27 09:44:47 saturn /kernel: swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer: dev= ice: #ad/0x30001, blkno: 95680, size: 32768 > > Oct 27 09:44:50 saturn /kernel: swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer: dev= ice: #ad/0x30001, blkno: 97880, size: 49152 > > Oct 27 09:44:54 saturn /kernel: swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer: dev= ice: #ad/0x30001, blkno: 97360, size: 57344 > > Oct 27 09:44:59 saturn /kernel: swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer: dev= ice: #ad/0x30001, blkno: 95680, size: 32768 > > Oct 27 09:44:59 saturn /kernel: swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer: dev= ice: #ad/0x30001, blkno: 97880, size: 49152 > > Oct 27 09:45:02 saturn /kernel: swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer: dev= ice: #ad/0x30001, blkno: 97360, size: 57344 > > Oct 27 09:45:03 saturn /kernel: swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer: dev= ice: #ad/0x30001, blkno: 95680, size: 32768 > > Oct 27 09:45:03 saturn /kernel: swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer: dev= ice: #ad/0x30001, blkno: 97880, size: 49152 > > Oct 27 09:46:30 saturn /kernel: swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer: dev= ice: #ad/0x30001, blkno: 51216, size: 4096 > > Oct 28 09:35:45 saturn /kernel: ata0: resetting devices .. done > > Oct 28 09:35:49 saturn /kernel: ad0: READ command timeout tag=3D0 serv= =3D0 - resetting > > Oct 28 09:35:49 saturn /kernel: ata0: resetting devices .. done >=20 > These are all various kinds of reports of the disk not reporting back > by the time the system expected it to do so. The usual first culprit > to check is the drive cable. I've been getting the command timeouts > on -STABLE for the last few weeks, and I'm figuring that the drive is > probably on its way out -- but that it might take months to get there. --=20 Regards Martin Schweizer PC-Service M. Schweizer; Gewerbehaus Schwarz; CH-8608 Bubikon Tel. +41 55 243 30 00; Fax: +41 55 243 33 22; http://www.pc-service.ch; public key : http://www.pc-service.ch/pgp/public_key.asc;=20 fingerprint: EC21 CA4D 5C78 BC2D 73B7 10F9 C1AE 1691 D30F D239; --p8PhoBjPxaQXD0vg Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE/pPh3wa4WkdMP0jkRApZMAKDbtdn/vPyebzjYtQPFH+CnUbxCNgCbBSFe fIpNfWNCA/DhDmd1vUl3RvE= =Ye9h -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --p8PhoBjPxaQXD0vg--