From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Feb 25 05:26:04 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 07EC1578 for ; Mon, 25 Feb 2013 05:26:04 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mapsware@prodigy.net.mx) Received: from nlpiport17.prodigy.net.mx (nlpiport17.prodigy.net.mx [148.235.52.22]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C8DBDE0F for ; Mon, 25 Feb 2013 05:26:03 +0000 (UTC) X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: Av8EAB/0KlG9ql9l/2dsb2JhbABFvniCWoESFoMSAQEFgQkLGBwSV4gsAr0mjxUWgyoDiDM2njmDJw X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.84,732,1355119200"; d="scan'208";a="208547447" Received: from nlpiport04.prodigy.net.mx ([148.235.52.112]) by nlpiport17.prodigy.net.mx with ESMTP; 24 Feb 2013 23:20:50 -0600 Received: from dsl-189-170-95-101-dyn.prod-infinitum.com.mx (HELO morena.lan) ([189.170.95.101]) by nlpiport04.prodigy.net.mx with ESMTP; 24 Feb 2013 23:20:50 -0600 From: Martin Alejandro Paredes Sanchez To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Boot-time hard drive errors Date: Sun, 24 Feb 2013 22:20:52 -0700 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.10 References: <1959.1361741586@server1.tristatelogic.com> In-Reply-To: <1959.1361741586@server1.tristatelogic.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <201302242220.53202.mapsware@prodigy.net.mx> X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2013 05:26:04 -0000 On Sunday 24 February 2013 14:33:06 Ronald F. Guilmette wrote: > I have a somewhat eclectic system, currently running (or at any rate, > trying to run) 9.1-RELEASE. The system in question contains three > drives, to wit: > > ATA-8 SATA 3.x device > ATA-8 SATA 1.x device > ATA-8 SATA 3.x device > > Previously, I had the ST3500320AS in this system, along with one other > entirely different Seagate drive, i.e. one not shown in the list above. > (Also, I was previously running 8.3-RELEASE and only recently updated > to 9.1-RELEASE.) > > Since I reconfigured the system to its current state, i.e. with the set > of three drives listed above, whenever I reboot the system, about 50% > of the time, when the boot process gets down to the point where it > would ordinarily be printing out the messages relating to ada0, ada1, > etc. suddenly I start to get a massive and apparently endless stream > of error messages, apparently relating to one of the drives listed > above, but the stream actually alternates between two consecutive > error messages, both undoubtedly related to each other. > Does your HDD controller is SATA 3? I had a similar problem (some times could not boot) and was caused because my HDD controller is SATA 1 Intel ICH5 SATA150 controller And my hard disk is SATA 2 WDC WD2500AVVS-00L2B0 01.03A01 The problem disapear when I lock the HDD at 150 MB/s (jumper settings the HDD to SATA 1)