Hi,

I'm seeing a lot of the following messages lately:

Mar 29 21:02:01 pixie kernel: ad0: TIMEOUT - READ_DMA retrying (1
retry left) LBA=13554983
Mar 29 21:02:34 pixie kernel: ad0: TIMEOUT - READ_DMA retrying (1
retry left) LBA=35376691
Mar 29 21:04:42 pixie kernel: ad0: TIMEOUT - READ_DMA retrying (1
retry left) LBA=13574483
Mar 29 21:12:25 pixie kernel: ad0: TIMEOUT - WRITE_DMA retrying (1
retry left) LBA=2665375
Mar 29 21:12:56 pixie kernel: ad0: TIMEOUT - WRITE_DMA retrying (1
retry left) LBA=38935999
Mar 29 21:14:53 pixie kernel: ad0: TIMEOUT - READ_DMA retrying (1
retry left) LBA=2170339
Mar 29 21:15:36 pixie kernel: ad0: TIMEOUT - READ_DMA retrying (1
retry left) LBA=51982907
Mar 29 21:23:45 pixie kernel: ad0: TIMEOUT - WRITE_DMA retrying (1
retry left) LBA=415
Mar 29 21:24:57 pixie kernel: ad0: TIMEOUT - WRITE_DMA retrying (1
retry left) LBA=41387775
Mar 29 21:25:27 pixie kernel: ad0: TIMEOUT - READ_DMA retrying (1
retry left) LBA=38754719
Mar 29 21:26:02 pixie kernel: ad0: TIMEOUT - WRITE_DMA retrying (1
retry left) LBA=53056287
Mar 29 21:29:03 pixie kernel: ad0: TIMEOUT - WRITE_DMA retrying (1
retry left) LBA=34612991
Mar 29 21:38:25 pixie kernel: ad0: TIMEOUT - READ_DMA retrying (1
retry left) LBA=8346079
Mar 29 21:52:59 pixie kernel: ad0: TIMEOUT - READ_DMA retrying (1
retry left) LBA=4663

This is a IBM Thinkpad T23 with the original disk installed.
$ uname -a
FreeBSD pixie 6.2-RELEASE-p3 FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE-p3 #0: Sat Mar 24
02:43:20 CET 2007     [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  i386

I've searched the net to gather some evidence wet wether this is a
sign of a dying hard disk, but I'm still not sure. Some postings state
that this kind of message isn't that bad as long as there are retries
left and suggest a configuration error.
Well, the Laptop had it's own kernel configuration until recently (I
forgot to save some configuration files before I installed DesktopBSD)
so I kind tell wether the appearance of these messages relates to the
new installation in any way.

Is it possible that this is a configuration issue, or should I get a
replacement for the disk?

Christian
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