From owner-freebsd-questions Mon May 8 8:10:51 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.utexas.edu (wb3-a.mail.utexas.edu [128.83.126.138]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 768CC37B535 for ; Mon, 8 May 2000 08:10:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from oscars@mail.utexas.edu) Received: (qmail 26992 invoked by uid 0); 8 May 2000 15:10:44 -0000 Received: from chepe.cc.utexas.edu (HELO chepe) (128.83.135.25) by umbs-smtp-3 with SMTP; 8 May 2000 15:10:44 -0000 Message-Id: <4.2.2.20000508095711.00a331c0@mail.utexas.edu> X-Sender: oscars@mail.utexas.edu X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.2.2 Date: Mon, 08 May 2000 10:09:36 -0500 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: Oscar Ricardo Silva Subject: 4.0: ad0: WRITE command timeout - resetting ?? Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG This weekend, my 4.0 machine died and I was not able to access it remotely. When I came in to work, I found the following message on the console: amanda /kernel: ad0: WRITE command timeout - resetting amanda /kernel: ata0: resetting devices .. done and the system was completely frozen. I didn't find anything noted in /var/log/messages and so reset the computer. After rebooting the machine, I was working on it and I received the following message: May 8 09:54:21 amanda /kernel: ad0: WRITE command timeout - resetting May 8 09:54:22 amanda /kernel: ata0: resetting devices .. done Surprisingly enough, the system continues to work and I'm still able to access it remotely. The above message WAS noted in /var/log/messages this time. I installed 4.0 this past weekend and successfully ran cvsupit and then make world. I have the system disk on the motherboard IDE controller 1 and then I have an IBM 32GB IBM-DPTA-373420, drive hanging off of a Promise ATA/66 PCI controller. There are two other PCI cards, a 3COM 3C905 and an Adaptec AHA2940U2W with an Overland Data DLT Autoloader connected to it. I did find the following the "Current Problem Reports": o [2000/03/24] kern/17592 sos ata READ/WRITE command timeouts and have found two other messages in the FreeBSD mailing list of others having the same problem but no solution so far. Oscar "Don't believe the hype" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message