mueller6...@twc.com ("Thomas Mueller") writes:
>What does it mean when I get such messages, and then I can't do anything more
>except reboot (not clean, I need to run fsck_ffs on partitions that had been
>mounted)?
>This happens with NetBSD-current i386 and amd64, but apparently not with
>NetBSD 7.99.1 (an old installation) or FreeBSD.
A timeout can have many causes, but here I suspect some issue with NCQ.
Try to disable NCQ for that drive with
sysctl -w hw.wd0.use_ncq=0
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