Is this serious?

[Mark]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Lowell Gilbert" <freebsd-questions-local at be-well.no-ip.com>
To: "Mark" <admin at asarian-host.net>
Cc: <freebsd-questions at FreeBSD.ORG>
Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2004 5:37 PM
Subject: Re: Is this serious?


> Mark <admin at asarian-host.net> writes:
> 
> > I just found this in my log:
> > 
> > ad4: WRITE command timeout tag=0 serv=0 - resetting
> > ata2: resetting devices .. ata2-slave: ATA identify retries
> > exceeded done
> > 
> > Is it serious? The RAID 1 has not degraded; but it feels
> > awkward.
> 
> If it doesn't happen again, it isn't serious.
> If it happens a lot, it indicates a hardware problem; most likely
> a cable problem, although possibly a disk or controller having
> trouble.

Thanks for the reply. The disk died, though, a few hours later. :(

- Mark