ad0: FAILURE - WRITE_DMA

Dag-Erling Smørgrav des at des.no
Sat Oct 9 09:23:17 PDT 2004


"Mikhail P." <miha at ghuug.org> writes:
> On Saturday 09 October 2004 15:01, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote:
> > 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 meant "a lot of timeouts", not "a lot of drives".  If you only get
one or two timeouts per drive at regular intervals (say, once a
month), they're just recalibrating and there's nothing to worry about.

BTW, are you using ataidle or anything similar?

DES
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