OFF TOPIC: hard drive problems

[Andrew Gould]

--- Josh Paetzel <friar_josh at webwarrior.net> wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 30, 2003 at 05:42:15AM -0700, Andrew
> Gould wrote:
> > Is my hard drive about to fail? I've had the same
> > hardware for several months without a problem. 
> While
> > running insert sql statements, I received the
> > following messages:
> > 
> > ad1: write command timeout tag=0 serv=0 -
> resetting
> > ata0: resetting devices..ad0: DMA limited to
> UDMA33,
> > non-ATA66 cable or device
> > done
> > 
> > ad1: timeout waiting for DRQ - resetting
> > ata0: resetting devices..ad0: DMA limited to
> UDMA33,
> > non-ATA66 cable or device
> > done
> > 
> > I was unable to do anything after that.  When the
> > system rebooted, it could not find FreeBSD.  I
> could
> > only reboot to FreeBSD after rewriting the mount
> > points using disklabel from the FreeBSD 5.0 CD#1.
> > 
> > This happened twice yesterday.
> > 
> > I'm running FreeBSD 4.8-Stable and PostgreSQL
> 7.3.2. 
> > Win2K is on the first hard drive of IDE0.  FreeBSD
> is
> > on the slave hard drive of IDE0.  The hard drive
> in
> > qeustion is a Western Digital 80GB ATA100 hard
> drive
> > with an 8MB buffer. All hard drives in the
> computer
> > are ATA100, which is supported by the motherboard.
> > 
> > Any advice would be appreciated.
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > 
> > Andrew Gould
> 
> www.wdc.com has diagnostic tools for your drive. 
> You'll have to run them from 
> windows, but that shouldn't be a big deal for you.
> 
> Josh
> 

Thanks for the tip.  My hard drive passed both the
quick and extensive diagnostic tests.

The questions remain as to what happened and why.  I
was able to complete the SQL queries after the tests
were done.  Nothing odd has happened since.

I'm updating my backups.

Best regards,

Andrew Gould

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