From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Feb 25 8:26:20 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from www3.infolink.com.br (www3.infolink.com.br [200.255.108.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 222C937B491 for ; Sun, 25 Feb 2001 08:26:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from apina@infolink.com.br) Received: from infolink.com.br (unverified [200.255.108.32]) by www3.infolink.com.br (Vircom SMTPRS 4.2.181) with SMTP id ; Sun, 25 Feb 2001 13:26:14 -0300 From: "Antonio Carlos Pina" Reply-To: apina@infolink.com.br To: Marco Rodrigues Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2001 13:26:15 est Subject: Re: IBM DeskStar READ timeout errors Message-id: <3a993227.567.0@infolink.com.br> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello Marco, Try to disable write cache using camcontrol. Unfortunately I don't recall right now the command syntax, but I'm confident that you can find it by searching the archives (or even looking at man camcontrol). Good luck. Antonio Carlos Pina apina@infolink.com.br Diretor de Tecnologia http://www.infolink.com.br >Greetings List, > > I recently bought a 45 GB IBM Deskstar. As with all new HD's I ran >some tests on it. Bonnie for example. The problem I keep getting is the >following, and it only happens when I try reading from the disk. > >ad5: READ command timeout - resetting >ata2: resetting devices.. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message