ATA failure with 4.6.2 & 250GB drive?

[Mark Willson]

I encountered a similar problem a while back, which turned out to be
caused by a bad IDE cable.  Worth a shot?

-mark


> From owner-freebsd-stable at freebsd.org Mon Oct 13 10:12:59 2003
> Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2003 10:09:10 +0100
> From: Scott Mitchell <scott+freebsd at fishballoon.org>
> To: freebsd-stable at freebsd.org
> Subject: ATA failure with 4.6.2 & 250GB drive?
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> Hi all,
>
> Just installed a Maxtor 250GB PATA drive in one of our servers, to be used
> as a backup staging area.  This was actually a replacement for an identical
> drive that appeared to have died after a month of service.
>
> Anyway, 2 days after this drive was installed I start seeing this in the
> daily logs:
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> > ad1s1e: hard error reading fsbn 850845887 of 425422912-425422943 (ad1s1 bn 850845887; cn 52962 tn 180 sn 17) trying PIO mode
> > ad1s1e: hard error reading fsbn 850845887 of 425422912-425422943 (ad1s1 bn 850845887; cn 52962 tn 180 sn 17) status=59 error=40
> > ad1s1e: hard error reading fsbn 850845887 of 425422912-425422943 (ad1s1 bn 850845887; cn 52962 tn 180 sn 17) status=59 error=40
> > ad1s1e: hard error reading fsbn 850845887 of 425422912-425422943 (ad1s1 bn 850845887; cn 52962 tn 180 sn 17) status=59 error=40
> ...