hdd error

[LiQuiD]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd-
> questions at freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Matthias F. Brandstetter
> Sent: November 29, 2004 12:34 PM
> To: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
> Subject: Re: hdd error
>
> ---------- quoting LiQuiD ----------
> > I've installed 5.3 on the same machine (an IBM Aptiva k6-2 450) but
> > using two different hard drives, both times giving me the same
> error.
> > In both cases, I was able to install 4.10-STABLE without any
> problems.
> > I've seen several people complain about this problem on 5.3
> machines,
> > with the only solution thus far using a sysctl variable to disable
> udma
> > for the hard drive.  For some reason it seems no one (that would
> know
> > how to fix it) is acknowledging the problem, which makes finding a
> > solution even more difficult.
>
> I hava a similar problem with 5.3 and two SATA disks. I am getting:
>
> ad4: TIMEOUT - WRITE_DMA retrying (2 retries left) LBA=145402687
> ad4: FAILURE - ATA_IDENTIFY timed out
> ad4: FAILURE - ATA_IDENTIFY timed out
> ar0: WARNING - mirror lost
> ad4: deleted from ar0 disk
> ad4: WARNING - removed from configuration
> ata2-master: FAILURE - WRITE_DMA timed out
>
> How did you disable udma for your disks?

http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/htdig/freebsd-questions/2004-November/0
63807.html

That's where I found it..

> Greetings and TIA, Matthias
>
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