---- Original message ---- >Date: Sun, 17 Dec 2006 02:57:56 +0100 >From: Dimitry Andric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Re: 4.0 frozen >To: Stephen Schaff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Cc: [email protected] > >Stephen Schaff wrote: >> Yesterday it inexplicably went dark. >... >> wd0(pciide1:0:0): timeout >> type: ata >> c_bcount: 65536 >> c_skip: 0 >> pciide1:0:0: bus-master DMA error: missing interrupt, status=0x21 >> wd0d: device timeout reading fsbn 234162112 of 234162112-234162239 (wd0 >> bn 235334857; cn 14648 tn 233 sn 58), retrying >> wd0: soft error (corrected) >> wd0(pciide1:0:0): timeout >> type: ata >> c_bcount: 65536 >> c_skip: 0 >> pciide1:0:0: bus-master DMA error: missing interrupt, status=0x21 >... more of those IDE errors ... > >Maybe dying disks? >
i must second this suggestion. almost every time i've seen these IDE timeout messages, it means that the disk(s) are damaged, close to dead or totally dead. i find that doing disk intensive operations, e.g. extracting src.tar.gz, with the machine in question will likely reproduce the timeouts if this is the case. cheers, jake
