Definitely try a different IDE cable before anything else. Its cheap, and in my case, it solved the problem. If it doesn't, then at least you will have eliminated that as a possibility.
Chris On Sat, March 5, 2005 4:58 pm, Rob said: > Luciano Musacchio wrote: >> Hi, >> I've a fbsd machine that hangs once in a while, >> I've this en /var/log/messages: >> ... >> Mar 5 14:44:58 chiba kernel: ad2: WARNING - >> WRITE_DMA UDMA ICRC error (retrying request) >> LBA=2949471 >> ... >> >> So, this means my hd is about to crash? >> How can I tell the kernel to reboot on such cases? >> (via sysctl?) > > This is 5.3, right? I bet you would not have such > problems with 4.X. > > My PC instantly crashed at boot with this same > message. I solved it by adding following to > /boot/loader.conf: > hw.ata.ata_dma="0" > > This will force the harddisk to operate in slow > PIO4 mode, but in my case the DMA trouble disappeared. > > Rob. > > > > > __________________________________ > Celebrate Yahoo!'s 10th Birthday! > Yahoo! Netrospective: 100 Moments of the Web > http://birthday.yahoo.com/netrospective/ > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" > _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
