From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Nov 29 17:33:55 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4496B16A53B for ; Mon, 29 Nov 2004 17:33:55 +0000 (GMT) Received: from allrounder.lame.at (mail.softlink.at [195.58.166.252]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B3A5543D39 for ; Mon, 29 Nov 2004 17:33:54 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from haimat@lame.at) Received: from itchy.lame.at (home.lame.at [80.78.254.138]) (using TLSv1 with cipher RC4-MD5 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by allrounder.lame.at (Postfix) with ESMTP id 26855300E4 for ; Mon, 29 Nov 2004 18:33:02 +0100 (CET) From: "Matthias F. Brandstetter" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2004 18:33:50 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.7 References: <20041129031225.5968343D5C@mx1.FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <20041129031225.5968343D5C@mx1.FreeBSD.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200411291833.50517.haimat@lame.at> Subject: Re: hdd error X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2004 17:33:55 -0000 ---------- quoting LiQuiD ---------- > I've installed 5.3 on the same machine (an IBM Aptiva k6-2 450) but > using two different hard drives, both times giving me the same error. > In both cases, I was able to install 4.10-STABLE without any problems. > I've seen several people complain about this problem on 5.3 machines, > with the only solution thus far using a sysctl variable to disable udma > for the hard drive. For some reason it seems no one (that would know > how to fix it) is acknowledging the problem, which makes finding a > solution even more difficult. I hava a similar problem with 5.3 and two SATA disks. I am getting: ad4: TIMEOUT - WRITE_DMA retrying (2 retries left) LBA=145402687 ad4: FAILURE - ATA_IDENTIFY timed out ad4: FAILURE - ATA_IDENTIFY timed out ar0: WARNING - mirror lost ad4: deleted from ar0 disk ad4: WARNING - removed from configuration ata2-master: FAILURE - WRITE_DMA timed out How did you disable udma for your disks? Greetings and TIA, Matthias -- You know, some of these stories are pretty good. I never knew mice lived such interesting lives. -- Homer Simpson Itchy & Scratchy & Marge