Dong Lin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > My 5.0R kernel complains about "READ timeout" and "resetting" when I > try to dd the disk. But everything *works* if I boot the same > equipment with 4.5R and 4.7R. It seems that the error can occur on any > sector I pick as long as I keep reading it inside a loop, a sign of > timing problems. > [...]
I had similar symptoms last week with a CURRENT system on a ThinkPad X20, which coupled with "hard error reading sector . . ." errors made me think that my disk was dying. After managing to get the system upgraded to a CURRENT from around 20030204, the symptoms have gone away. Not sure if this helps that much, but at least here is another report of ATA problems that *seem* to have been software related. -- Mark Evenson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "A screaming comes across the sky. It has happened before, but there is nothing to compare to it now." To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
