Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2005 11:48:38 +0100 From: Bob Bishop <rb@gid.co.uk> To: Tony Byrne <freebsd@byrnehq.com>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re[2]: ATA_DMA errors (and fs corruption!) Message-ID: <6.2.0.14.2.20050620114339.04461da8@gid.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <67335859.20050620110953@byrnehq.com> References: <8d02aed00506181404642100b9@mail.gmail.com> <42B5DAEA.4040908@nurfuerspam.de> <8d02aed005061918049c8fd8@mail.gmail.com> <67335859.20050620110953@byrnehq.com>
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At 11:09 20/06/2005, Tony Byrne wrote: >[...] > Of course, there >can be hardware reasons for timeouts such as a dying disk or cable, >but I think we've eliminated these in our case. [etc] Don't ignore the possibility of failing controller hardware. We had comparable mysterious problems on a client system, causing a lot of head-scratching. Eventually the failure went hard and we had to replace the motherboard. -- Bob Bishop +44 (0)118 940 1243 rb@gid.co.uk fax +44 (0)118 940 1295
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