Date: Mon, 1 Aug 2005 07:52:21 -0400 (EDT) From: Francisco Reyes <lists@natserv.com> To: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Erik_N=C3=B8rgaard?= <norgaard@math.ku.dk> Cc: Norbert Koch <NKoch@demig.de>, questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: Dead disk? READ_DMA Failure Message-ID: <20050801075111.M80573@zoraida.natserv.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.40.0508011341230.11718-100000@shannon.math.ku.dk> References: <Pine.LNX.4.40.0508011341230.11718-100000@shannon.math.ku.dk>
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On Mon, 1 Aug 2005, [ISO-8859-1] Erik Nørgaard wrote: >> 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. If the problem is either a dying IDE drive or what I mention above re-installing won't help, so you still need to see what's going on. In my case I was getting the errors daily so it was easy to see if the slowdown helped.
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