Re: ad0 READ timeout

"Dan Langille" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.freebsd.devel.mobile
Message-ID <3FC588E2.32713.236D6063@localhost>
On 27 Nov 2003 at 9:25, Stasys Smailys wrote:

> On 11/27/2003 04:19:25, Dan Langille wrote:
> > My laptop stopped booting yesterday.  It displays a few "ad0: READ
> > command timeout tag=0 serv=0 - resetting" messages before it gives
> > up.
> 
> > Is this a dead drive?
> 
> May be yes, may be not. I would say it seems IDE controller is dead. 
> Just to make sure that HDD is alive try DFT. You can download it from 
> here: http://www.hgst.com/hdd/support/download.htm.

Before I received your message, I had used a spare HDD.  I installed 
FreeBSD on it.  It works.  I suspect the original drive is faulty.

Thank you.
-- 
Dan Langille : http://www.langille.org/

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