Hello, On Sun, Sep 11, 2005 at 10:33:47PM +0200 or thereabouts, Daniel Gerzo wrote: > > Sep 6 11:35:27 mybox kernel: ad0: TIMEOUT - WRITE_DMA retrying (2 retries > > left) LBA=8348191 > > ... > > Sep 6 18:59:09 mybox kernel: ad0: TIMEOUT - WRITE_DMA retrying (2 retries > > left) LBA=8348383 > > Sep 6 19:04:58 mybox kernel: ad0: TIMEOUT - READ_DMA retrying (2 retries > > left) LBA=61749183 > > > The READ_DMA timeouts are happening very infrequently, but it's worth > > mentioning that I'm seeing them now in addition. > > > This is quite disturbing, particularly when the machine in question is > > *in*production.* > > I thing you should really quickly look for backuping your data. When > I was seeing this kind of messages last time, my disk died after 3 > days from time they started showing up in my log files. I wasn't able > to write any data to the disk (system just sudennly paniced, when > I tried to mount it rw, but I was able to mount it ro and copy most of > the data) Note, that I wasn't able to copy about 10GB out of 30GB. So > don't ignore them and have a good luck.
Hmmm, before trashing that disk, you could surely consider running smartmontools to see what they have to say about health condition of your disk :).. go for sysutils/smartmontools. After that can one make assumptions whether it is faulty hardware or ata patches :). -- martin hudec * 421 907 303 393 * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * http://www.aeternal.net "Nothing travels faster than the speed of light with the possible exception of bad news, which obeys its own special laws." Douglas Adams, "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"
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