Date: Thu, 1 May 2003 09:29:33 -0700 (PDT) From: Andrew Gould <andrewgould@yahoo.com> To: Josh Paetzel <friar_josh@webwarrior.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: OFF TOPIC: hard drive problems Message-ID: <20030501162933.45037.qmail@web13404.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20030430135013.GG44293@ns1.webwarrior.net>
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--- Josh Paetzel <friar_josh@webwarrior.net> wrote: > On Wed, Apr 30, 2003 at 05:42:15AM -0700, Andrew > Gould wrote: > > Is my hard drive about to fail? I've had the same > > hardware for several months without a problem. > While > > running insert sql statements, I received the > > following messages: > > > > ad1: write command timeout tag=0 serv=0 - > resetting > > ata0: resetting devices..ad0: DMA limited to > UDMA33, > > non-ATA66 cable or device > > done > > > > ad1: timeout waiting for DRQ - resetting > > ata0: resetting devices..ad0: DMA limited to > UDMA33, > > non-ATA66 cable or device > > done > > > > I was unable to do anything after that. When the > > system rebooted, it could not find FreeBSD. I > could > > only reboot to FreeBSD after rewriting the mount > > points using disklabel from the FreeBSD 5.0 CD#1. > > > > This happened twice yesterday. > > > > I'm running FreeBSD 4.8-Stable and PostgreSQL > 7.3.2. > > Win2K is on the first hard drive of IDE0. FreeBSD > is > > on the slave hard drive of IDE0. The hard drive > in > > qeustion is a Western Digital 80GB ATA100 hard > drive > > with an 8MB buffer. All hard drives in the > computer > > are ATA100, which is supported by the motherboard. > > > > Any advice would be appreciated. > > > > Thanks, > > > > Andrew Gould > > www.wdc.com has diagnostic tools for your drive. > You'll have to run them from > windows, but that shouldn't be a big deal for you. > > Josh > Thanks for the tip. My hard drive passed both the quick and extensive diagnostic tests. The questions remain as to what happened and why. I was able to complete the SQL queries after the tests were done. Nothing odd has happened since. I'm updating my backups. Best regards, Andrew Gould __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Search - Faster. Easier. Bingo. http://search.yahoo.com
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