Re: Device timeout reading fsbn ...

[mlelstv%serpens.de@localhost (Michael van Elst)]

mueller6725%twc.com@localhost ("Thomas Mueller") writes:

>What does it mean when I get such messages, and then I can't do anything more except reboot (not clean, I need to run fsck_ffs on partitions that had been mounted)?

>This happens with NetBSD-current i386 and amd64, but apparently not with NetBSD 7.99.1 (an old installation) or FreeBSD.


A timeout can have many causes, but here I suspect some issue with NCQ.

Try to disable NCQ for that drive with

sysctl -w hw.wd0.use_ncq=0

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