ad0: FAILURE - WRITE_DMA

[Mikhail P.]

On Saturday 09 October 2004 15:01, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote:
> "Mikhail P." <miha at ghuug.org> writes:
> > I reloaded OS on the new drives, then restored all data from the old
> > drives. All seemed to be fine for 2 months now... but today I woke up,
> > and noticed these messages again.
>
> A lot of them, or just one or two?  Some ATA drives will spin down at
> regular intervals to recalibrate, and you'll get a harmless timeout if
> you try to write to the disk while it's doing that.

Unfortunately, all the drives (so far - four 200GB drives).
I'm having the previous two drives shipped here within two weeks.
Most likely these drives aren't corrupted actually.. will stress them locally 
here.

>
> DES

regards,
M.