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Subject: Re: IDE hdd timeout
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Kalev Lember <kalev@colleduc.ee> writes:
> ad0: TIMEOUT - READ_DMA retrying (2 retries left) LBA=3D7593671
> [...]
> ad0: 9671MB <IBM-DTTA-351010> [19650/16/63] at ata0-master UDMA33

IBM DeskStars recalibrate every 24 or 25 hours.  You get a timeout if
you try to access the disk while this happens.

(if you happen to be around at the time, you'll hear the disk spin
down and then up again)

DES
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Dag-Erling Sm=C3=B8rgrav - des@des.no