Hello Lowell Thank you for your quick answer. I checked the IDE and power cable and now the errors are gone!
Am Wed, Oct 29, 2003 at 01:56:04PM -0500 Lowell Gilbert schrieb: > Martin Schweizer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Since two days I log in /var/log/messages the following errors. What does they > > mean (I now, somthing with my first harddrive... :-) )? > > Yep. > > > My System: > > FreeBSD saturn.pcs.ms 4.8-RELEASE FreeBSD 4.8-RELEASE #0: Thu May 15 08:23:22 CEST > > 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/KERNEL48 i386 > > > > /var/log/messages: > > Oct 27 09:36:59 saturn /kernel: ata0: resetting devices .. done > > Oct 27 09:36:59 saturn /kernel: ad0: READ command timeout tag=0 serv=0 - resetting > > Oct 27 09:36:59 saturn /kernel: ata0: resetting devices .. done > > Oct 27 09:44:05 saturn /kernel: swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer: device: > > #ad/0x30001, blkno: 97360, size: 57344 > > Oct 27 09:44:47 saturn /kernel: swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer: device: > > #ad/0x30001, blkno: 95680, size: 32768 > > Oct 27 09:44:50 saturn /kernel: swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer: device: > > #ad/0x30001, blkno: 97880, size: 49152 > > Oct 27 09:44:54 saturn /kernel: swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer: device: > > #ad/0x30001, blkno: 97360, size: 57344 > > Oct 27 09:44:59 saturn /kernel: swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer: device: > > #ad/0x30001, blkno: 95680, size: 32768 > > Oct 27 09:44:59 saturn /kernel: swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer: device: > > #ad/0x30001, blkno: 97880, size: 49152 > > Oct 27 09:45:02 saturn /kernel: swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer: device: > > #ad/0x30001, blkno: 97360, size: 57344 > > Oct 27 09:45:03 saturn /kernel: swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer: device: > > #ad/0x30001, blkno: 95680, size: 32768 > > Oct 27 09:45:03 saturn /kernel: swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer: device: > > #ad/0x30001, blkno: 97880, size: 49152 > > Oct 27 09:46:30 saturn /kernel: swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer: device: > > #ad/0x30001, blkno: 51216, size: 4096 > > Oct 28 09:35:45 saturn /kernel: ata0: resetting devices .. done > > Oct 28 09:35:49 saturn /kernel: ad0: READ command timeout tag=0 serv=0 - resetting > > Oct 28 09:35:49 saturn /kernel: ata0: resetting devices .. done > > These are all various kinds of reports of the disk not reporting back > by the time the system expected it to do so. The usual first culprit > to check is the drive cable. I've been getting the command timeouts > on -STABLE for the last few weeks, and I'm figuring that the drive is > probably on its way out -- but that it might take months to get there. -- Regards Martin Schweizer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PC-Service M. Schweizer; Gewerbehaus Schwarz; CH-8608 Bubikon Tel. +41 55 243 30 00; Fax: +41 55 243 33 22; http://www.pc-service.ch; public key : http://www.pc-service.ch/pgp/public_key.asc; fingerprint: EC21 CA4D 5C78 BC2D 73B7 10F9 C1AE 1691 D30F D239;
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