Re: Issue with freebsd 6.2 and disk drives

2007-06-24 Thread Matthew Seaman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Matt Juszczak wrote: Hi all, My dedicated server company is deploying me a new FreeBSD 6.2 server. The box uses SATA drives, and is an AMD Athlon box. I was getting the following error flooding my dmesg: ad4: TIMEOUT - WRITE_DMA retrying

Re: Issue with freebsd 6.2 and disk drives

2007-06-24 Thread Wojciech Puchar
I was getting the following error flooding my dmesg: ad4: TIMEOUT - WRITE_DMA retrying (1 retry left) LBA=* so they replaced all the hardware in the box. Still, with entirely different hardware, I am getting the same error: ad4: TIMEOUT - WRITE_DMA retrying (1 retry left)

Re: Issue with freebsd 6.2 and disk drives

2007-06-24 Thread Wojciech Puchar
(b) Cabling troubles are purely down to the build quality achieved by your supplier. Generally with SATA cables what seems to work best is to use cables that are as short as possible given that the cables should have at least an inch of slack in them, and also the cables should neither be

Issue with freebsd 6.2 and disk drives

2007-06-23 Thread Matt Juszczak
Hi all, My dedicated server company is deploying me a new FreeBSD 6.2 server. The box uses SATA drives, and is an AMD Athlon box. I was getting the following error flooding my dmesg: ad4: TIMEOUT - WRITE_DMA retrying (1 retry left) LBA=* so they replaced all the hardware in the