strange ata-hdd error

[Daniel O'Connor]

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On Thu, 8 Jul 2004 07:13, mikael söderholm wrote:
> I get these errors after 2-7days of uptime:
>
> Jun 30 14:04:58 mutka kernel: ad0: TIMEOUT - WRITE_DMA retrying (2 retries
> left) LBA=3012159 Jun 30 15:40:26 mutka kernel: ad0: FAILURE - WRITE_DMA
> status=51<READY,DSC,ERROR> error=4<ABORTED> LBA=3011071 Jun 30 15:40:31
> mutka kernel: ad0: TIMEOUT - WRITE_DMA retrying (2 retries left)
> LBA=3011199
>
> and then something like: 'removing ad0 from configuration' and I'm forced
> to reboot

Kind of sounds like your disk is dying..

What happens if you run smartctl on it 
(from /usr/ports/sysutils/smartmontools)

Run (as root)
smartctl -a ad0

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