On Fri, 30 Mar 2007 14:44:33 +0100 Alex Zbyslaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Christian Walther wrote: > > >> > >> > > 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 > >> > > Just thought I should point out that you can get errors like this if > your disk drive *cable* is faulty or has wiggled loose. > > I spent hours testing a 250Gb drive with manufacturer tools only to > solve the problem by replacing the SATA cable. I suspect the cable > was fine and had just wiggled loose. SATA may be thinner, but > they're still a bugger to route because they pull out so easily. > Even an IDE cable could have gone faulty or wiggled out; but in 15 > years that's never happened to me whereas I've seen 2 SATA cables > wiggle out in an untouched tower case in two years. This happened to me a couple of months ago, the problem went away after I reseated the SATA connectors. _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"