From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 4 09:18:31 2005 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 3192516A4CE for ; Tue, 4 Jan 2005 09:18:31 +0000 (GMT) Received: from postit.mail.adnap.net.au (postit.mail.adnap.net.au [203.6.132.68]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B016843D2F for ; Tue, 4 Jan 2005 09:18:30 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from bastill@adam.com.au) Received: from [192.168.1.3] (202-6-151-45.ip.adam.com.au [202.6.151.45]) by postit.mail.adnap.net.au (Postfix) with ESMTP id D64BB1B311 for ; Tue, 4 Jan 2005 19:48:23 +1030 (CST) From: Brian Astill To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Tue, 4 Jan 2005 19:48:39 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.6.2 References: <20050104083334.65464.qmail@web41107.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20050104083334.65464.qmail@web41107.mail.yahoo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200501041948.39087.bastill@adam.com.au> Subject: Re: ad0: TIMEOUT the saga continues. 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: Tue, 04 Jan 2005 09:18:31 -0000 On Tue, 4 Jan 2005 03:33 am, borg wrote: > Greetings all, > > Today is the second time I get this message on my > console: > > ad0: Timeout - write_DMA retrying (2 retries left) > LBA=18576259 I had this same problem when trying to install extra packages from Disk 4 of the 5.3 Release. It also killed the boot sector which contained lilo on another drive . I largely recovered the boot sector so now have a working system on which 5.3 is a a late stage of install, but that "retrying" thingo is a worry. -- Regards, Brian sos-sa.org.au