On Sun, 31 Jul 2005, Francisco wrote: > On Fri, 29 Jul 2005, Norbert Koch wrote: > > >> I have a one year old Hitachi Travelstar 60GB/4200RPM disk. This > >> night and since then, I get these errors: > >> ad0: TIMEOUT - READ_DMA retrying (2 retries left) LBA=48926527 > >> ad0: TIMEOUT - READ_DMA retrying (1 retry left) LBA=48926527 > >> ad0: FAILURE - READ_DMA timed out > > > I've seen these error messages too. And also WRITE_DMA TIMEOUT! > > You may have a hardware problem, but I'm not convinced. > > I don't recall if it was the exact errors, but I had some simmilar ones. > For some reason 5.4 didn't like my ATA100 drive and had to slow down the > communication speed to the drive. > > In my case I added to /usr/local/etc/rc.d a script with > > /sbin/atacontrol mode 1 udma66 pio4 > > Basically slowing down the channel to the drive.. the pio4 is for the > CDrom and that was it's normal speed.
Thanks! Well, I wish that I had known that before I tried reinstalling the system. Thanks again, Erik GnuPG: http://www.locolomo.org/home/norgaard/norgaard.gpg.asc pub 1024D/11D11F9E 2003-08-15 Erik Norgaard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Key fingerprint = C394 81C4 D137 EEE5 39BE 82D5 3E6B FB3E 11D1 1F9E _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
