hdd error

[Matthias F. Brandstetter]

---------- 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?
Greetings and TIA, Matthias

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