Andy Ruhl wrote:
> On 6/28/06, Mark Cullen <mark.r.cullen@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> Andy Ruhl wrote:
>> > On 6/28/06, Mark Cullen <mark.r.cullen@gmail.com> wrote:
>> >
>> >> Is this most likely just the cable? That last error looks quite
>> >> worrying... I do believe that I have another disk attached on the same
>> >> cable as that drive though, so I would have thought I would also be
>> >> seeing errors on wd0. Hmm....
>> >
>> >
>> > Cable, wonky controller bios, memory, any number of things. Cold boot
>> > it and see if it continues.
>> >
>> > I had this problem when I added a network card. I assume this is
>> > likely PC hardware, which is often junk. No offense, it's just the
>> > case. I have to deal with it too.
>> >
>> > Andy
>> >
>>
>> Ok, I've just seen something quite disturbing :)
>>
>> Recall the SMART status from before:
>>
>>   12 100   20     no  online  positive    Device power cycle 
>> count       66
>>
>> this is now
>>
>>   12 100   20     no  online  positive    Device power cycle 
>> count       83
>>
>> NetBSD 'resetting the device' (I have no idea if it is or not), wouldn't
>> cause this would it? I think I am off to check the power plug isn't
>> loose or something!!
> 
> 
> Yeah, those old style (non newer SATA style) power plugs are horrible.
> I've had one of those go bad too. I think you'd see different errors
> though. But I don't know how to interpret that SMART output.
> 

Yeah, it's one of those ugly 4-pin molex jobbies. I've actually never 
had such a thing happen to me before.

> I literally got errors just like this when I added a card to my box,
> on 1 of the 4 drives on the controller. Took out the card, everything
> is fine.

That's really quite odd! That was with a network card you say? The only 
PCI cards I have in that box are two Intel NIC's as it goes. If the 
error's dont go away I will try moving the cards about.

> 
> PC hardware, I'm telling ya. I know that's a "dust bin" type answer,
> but it's the truth.

You're right there :) It seems quite hard to find decent hardware. Even 
this DFI board I have, which people tend to make a fuss about, seems to 
have a few BIOS issues. I switched the IDE cables for primary and 
secondary IDE around and it refused to POST until I cleared the CMOS. 
It's all just oh-so-very-annoying!

> 
> Andy
>