On Tuesday 16 November 2004 01:07, sp0ng3b0b wrote: > I am having a strange problem and need some help. I installed > FreeBSD on a Maxtor 300GB IDE drive that is less than 1 year old. > After one day, FreeBSD complains about DMA problems. I got a LOT of > these. > > ERROR MESSAGE: > kernel: ad0: FAILURE - READ_DMA status=51<READY,DSC,ERROR> > error=40<UNCORRECTABLE> > > I googled for the error, and foudn a suggestion that the drive may > be failing. So I ran Maxtor disk diagnostics and it says the drive > is failing. So I start the RMA process. > > In the meantime, I install a BRAND NEW Seagate 120GB 7200.7 hard > drive. I install FreeBSD 5.3 on it. One day later, I get the SAME > errors! Lots of em! > > kernel: ad0: FAILURE - READ_DMA status=51<READY,DSC,ERROR> > error=40<UNCORRECTABLE> > > What is going on? Is FreeBSD destroying my disks? Here is some > info:
More likely would be that your PSU is eating drives. I would look at hardware way before trying to attach "blame" to FreeBSD. ;) -- Thanks, Josh Paetzel _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
