From owner-freebsd-questions Tue May 29 7: 7:40 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ldc.ro (ppp010.mediasat.ro [193.231.170.138]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B3CC237B422 for ; Tue, 29 May 2001 07:07:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from razor@ldc.ro) Received: (qmail 364 invoked by uid 1000); 29 May 2001 12:32:38 -0000 Date: Tue, 29 May 2001 15:32:38 +0300 From: Alexandru Popa To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Strange ata0/ad0 messages - possible hardware problem Message-ID: <20010529153238.A351@ldc.ro> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Here is a relevant part from my dmesg, from a 4.3-STABLE system last updated about a week ago: atapci0: port 0xf000-0xf00f at device 7.1 on pci0 ata0: at 0x1f0 irq 14 on atapci0 ata1: at 0x170 irq 15 on atapci0 ad0: 12416MB [25228/16/63] at ata0-master UDMA33 ad2: 4125MB [8940/15/63] at ata1-master UDMA33 acd0: CDROM at ata1-slave using PIO4 Mounting root from ufs:/dev/ad0s1a ad0: READ command timeout tag=0 serv=0 - resetting ata0: resetting devices .. done I was to right in front of the machine at the time the last two messages happened, and I heard a strange noise - it sounded like the hard drive taking a shock or like its power being cut off for a second, because, apart from the hit, I heard the thing spin up again. The system was not idle, as I had been running X and netscape a few minutes before - both reside on ad0, so power saving is not an issue. Anyone have any ideas what could have caused this? Can a disk head crash sound like that? How soon should I hurry and get a new hdd? I am going to check the power cables first, as I have had problems with those on a different system where the CD drive would not work at random times. Thanks for the help Alex [please Cc me on the replies, I only read -stable and -security] ------------+------------------------------------------ Alex Popa, | "Artificial Intelligence is razor@ldc.ro| no match for Natural Stupidity" ------------+------------------------------------------ "It took the computing power of three C-64s to fly to the Moon. It takes a 486 to run Windows 95. Something is wrong here." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message