On Thu, 16 Feb 2006 20:10:31 +0000, in sentex.lists.freebsd.questions
you wrote:
>For the last 4-days, our (otherwise OK) 5.4-RELEASE machine has been
>reporting:
>
>Feb 12 12:08:05 : ad0: TIMEOUT - WRITE_DMA retrying (2 retries left)
>LBA=2701279
>Feb 13 00:08:51 : ad0: TIMEOUT - WRITE_DMA retrying (2 retries left)
>LBA=2701279
>Feb 13 12:09:38 : ad0: TIMEOUT - WRITE_DMA retrying (2 retries left)
>LBA=2963331
>Feb 14 00:10:24 : ad0: TIMEOUT - WRITE_DMA retrying (2 retries left)
>LBA=2705947
>
>So -- can anyone help track this down?
It sounds like a hardware issue. Install
/usr/ports/sysutils/smartmontools and "ask" the drive to see whats up.
---Mike
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Mike Tancsa, Sentex communications http://www.sentex.net
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