WRITE_DMA errors on SATA drive under 5.3-RELEASE

[Mike Tancsa]

On Sun, 27 Feb 2005 23:09:50 +0100, in sentex.lists.freebsd.questions
you wrote:

>Mike Tancsa writes:
>
>> Could be a bad sector on the drive, or bad cable. Hard to say.  Try
>> /usr/ports/sysutils/smartmontools/
>>
>> It can read all sorts of info off the drive and help you narrow down
>> what the problem might be.
>
>
>The two SATA drives show no errors.  The older IDE drive (which contains
>the filesystem root) shows the stuff below.  There have been over 1000
>
>Device does not support Selective Self Tests/Logging


Try running some of the tests on the SATA drives as well as run the
monitoring daemon. With any luck, it will provide a little more
information about the error condition you are seeing.

	---Mike
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