From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Jan 23 17:11:12 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from www.evil.2y.net (ip-216-23-53-20.adsl.one.net [216.23.53.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 54CE937B6B6 for ; Tue, 23 Jan 2001 17:10:55 -0800 (PST) Received: (from cokane@localhost) by www.evil.2y.net (8.11.1/8.11.1) id f0O1NAX72988; Tue, 23 Jan 2001 20:23:10 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from cokane) Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2001 20:23:10 -0500 From: Coleman Kane To: Kal Torak Cc: "Geoffrey Crompton (RMIT Guest)" , freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: hard read errors Message-ID: <20010123202310.A72951@cokane.yi.org> References: <20010123174558.A427@gecko.eric.net.au> <3A6D4A30.806FCCFD@quake.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <3A6D4A30.806FCCFD@quake.com.au>; from kaltorak@quake.com.au on Tue, Jan 23, 2001 at 04:09:33AM -0500 X-Vim: vim:tw=70:ts=4:sw=4 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I'd still back up the data as soon as possible. I have seen that message preclude a hard drive crash so many times, it's not even funny. Kal Torak had the audacity to say: > > "Geoffrey Crompton (RMIT Guest)" wrote: > > > > I'm getting many hard read errors on a machine. I had these errors > > back in 4.1.1, and still in 4.2. A section of /var/log/messages says: > > > > Jan 23 17:12:44 ipv6-gw /kernel: ad0: HARD READ ERROR blk# 14484670ad0: HARD READ ERROR blk# 14484670 status=59 error=40 > > Jan 23 17:12:44 ipv6-gw /kernel: ad0: DMA problem fallback to PIO mode > > Jan 23 17:12:44 ipv6-gw /kernel: IPv6 packet filtering initialized, logging disabled > > Jan 23 17:12:44 ipv6-gw /kernel: ad0: HARD READ ERROR blk# 14484670 status=59 error=40 > > Jan 23 17:12:44 ipv6-gw /kernel: ad0: HARD READ ERROR blk# 14484670 status=59 error=40 > > > Soren MFC'd a new ata-dma.c just a few days ago... > Its worth getting the new source and compiling it into your kernel > and see if that fixes your problems > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message