ad0: FAILURE - WRITE_DMA

Dag-Erling Smørgrav des at des.no
Sat Oct 9 08:02:00 PDT 2004


"Mikhail P." <miha at ghuug.org> writes:
> I reloaded OS on the new drives, then restored all data from the old drives.
> All seemed to be fine for 2 months now... but today I woke up, and noticed
> these messages again.

A lot of them, or just one or two?  Some ATA drives will spin down at
regular intervals to recalibrate, and you'll get a harmless timeout if
you try to write to the disk while it's doing that.

DES
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