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From: Paul Richards <paul@freebsd-services.com>
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On Sun, Apr 13, 2003 at 09:11:49AM -0800, Beech Rintoul wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have a Compaq Deskpro PI/200 with a Maxtor 10G drive running
> yesterday's -CURRENT.
> Several weeks ago I installed the Maxtor HD and have been having the
> following problem under heavy disk usage:
> 
> Apr 12 09:27:56 stargate kernel: ad2: WRITE command timeout tag=0 serv=0 -
> reset
> ting

I get these periodically too with the following disk.

ad0: 117800MB <IC35L120AVV207-0> [239340/16/63] at ata2-master UDMA100

Also, my disk performance seems to generally suck. Soren, have you got a
benchmark I can run to see if things are OK?

Paul.