wierd problem involving the command make install

[Kris Kennaway]

On Sat, May 03, 2003 at 09:25:47AM -0500, Vulpes Velox wrote:
> On Thu, 1 May 2003 22:31:16 -0700
> Kris Kennaway <kris at obsecurity.org> wrote:
> 
> > On Sat, May 03, 2003 at 12:39:58AM -0500, Vulpes Velox wrote:
> > 
> > > In the last few days when I use the command 'make install' I get the
> > > following error message...
> > > 
> > > ad1: READ command timeout tag=0 serv=0 - resetting
> > > ata0: resetting devices .. ad0: DMA limited to UDMA33, non-ATA66 cable or device
> > > done
> > > 
> > > 
> > > ...the drive appears to be working fine and I have managed to cat
> > > and cp large chunks of both file systems with out problems. The only
> > thing I have managed to come up with is a possible virus or something
> > is major misconfigured. Any one have any ideas one this.
> > 
> > The drive is timing out in response to a read command.  It's most
> > likely to either be marginal hardware or a low-quality IDE controller.
> > If it really bothers you, try replacing the hardware.
> 
> Cool, thanks for the info. I think I am going to try putting the drive in
> another box and see what happens.

I forgot to mention it could also be due to a poor quality cable
(e.g. the message suggests that you don't have an ATA66-capable cable
anyway, so your drive access speed is being limited to 33MHz).

Kris
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