ATA error messages

[Martin Schweizer]

Hello Lowell

Thank you for your quick answer. I checked the IDE and power cable and now the 
errors are gone!

Am Wed, Oct 29, 2003 at 01:56:04PM -0500 Lowell Gilbert schrieb:
> Martin Schweizer <pcservi at spectraweb.ch> writes:
> 
> > Since two days I log in /var/log/messages the following errors. What does they 
> > mean (I now, somthing with my first harddrive... :-) )?
> 
> Yep.
> 
> > My System: 
> > FreeBSD saturn.pcs.ms 4.8-RELEASE FreeBSD 4.8-RELEASE #0: Thu May 15 08:23:22 CEST 
> > 2003     martin at saturn.spectraweb.ch:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/KERNEL48  i386
> > 
> > /var/log/messages:
> > Oct 27 09:36:59 saturn /kernel: ata0: resetting devices .. done
> > Oct 27 09:36:59 saturn /kernel: ad0: READ command timeout tag=0 serv=0 - resetting
> > Oct 27 09:36:59 saturn /kernel: ata0: resetting devices .. done
> > Oct 27 09:44:05 saturn /kernel: swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer: device: #ad/0x30001, blkno: 97360, size: 57344
> > Oct 27 09:44:47 saturn /kernel: swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer: device: #ad/0x30001, blkno: 95680, size: 32768
> > Oct 27 09:44:50 saturn /kernel: swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer: device: #ad/0x30001, blkno: 97880, size: 49152
> > Oct 27 09:44:54 saturn /kernel: swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer: device: #ad/0x30001, blkno: 97360, size: 57344
> > Oct 27 09:44:59 saturn /kernel: swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer: device: #ad/0x30001, blkno: 95680, size: 32768
> > Oct 27 09:44:59 saturn /kernel: swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer: device: #ad/0x30001, blkno: 97880, size: 49152
> > Oct 27 09:45:02 saturn /kernel: swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer: device: #ad/0x30001, blkno: 97360, size: 57344
> > Oct 27 09:45:03 saturn /kernel: swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer: device: #ad/0x30001, blkno: 95680, size: 32768
> > Oct 27 09:45:03 saturn /kernel: swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer: device: #ad/0x30001, blkno: 97880, size: 49152
> > Oct 27 09:46:30 saturn /kernel: swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer: device: #ad/0x30001, blkno: 51216, size: 4096
> > Oct 28 09:35:45 saturn /kernel: ata0: resetting devices .. done
> > Oct 28 09:35:49 saturn /kernel: ad0: READ command timeout tag=0 serv=0 - resetting
> > Oct 28 09:35:49 saturn /kernel: ata0: resetting devices .. done
> 
> These are all various kinds of reports of the disk not reporting back
> by the time the system expected it to do so.  The usual first culprit
> to check is the drive cable.  I've been getting the command timeouts
> on -STABLE for the last few weeks, and I'm figuring that the drive is
> probably on its way out -- but that it might take months to get there.

-- 

Regards

Martin Schweizer
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