Christian Walther wrote:
> > I'm seeing a lot of the following messages lately: > > > > Mar 29 21:02:01 pixie kernel: ad0: TIMEOUT - READ_DMA retrying (1 > > retry left) LBA=13554983 > > Mar 29 21:02:34 pixie kernel: ad0: TIMEOUT - READ_DMA retrying (1 > > retry left) LBA=35376691
Just thought I should point out that you can get errors like this if your disk drive *cable* is faulty or has wiggled loose.
I spent hours testing a 250Gb drive with manufacturer tools only to solve the problem by replacing the SATA cable. I suspect the cable was fine and had just wiggled loose. SATA may be thinner, but they're still a bugger to route because they pull out so easily. Even an IDE cable could have gone faulty or wiggled out; but in 15 years that's never happened to me whereas I've seen 2 SATA cables wiggle out in an untouched tower case in two years.
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