RE: dma/sysctl

2005-03-05 Thread Subhro
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:owner-freebsd- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Luciano Musacchio Sent: Sunday, March 06, 2005 3:05 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: dma/sysctl Hi, I've a fbsd machine that hangs once in a while, I've this en

Re: dma/sysctl

2005-03-05 Thread Rob
Luciano Musacchio wrote: Hi, I've a fbsd machine that hangs once in a while, I've this en /var/log/messages: ... Mar 5 14:44:58 chiba kernel: ad2: WARNING - WRITE_DMA UDMA ICRC error (retrying request) LBA=2949471 ... So, this means my hd is about to crash? How can I tell the

Re: dma/sysctl

2005-03-05 Thread Chris Warren
Definitely try a different IDE cable before anything else. Its cheap, and in my case, it solved the problem. If it doesn't, then at least you will have eliminated that as a possibility. Chris On Sat, March 5, 2005 4:58 pm, Rob said: Luciano Musacchio wrote: Hi, I've a fbsd machine that hangs