On Fri, Oct 12, 2001 at 08:52:44AM -0700, Andy R wrote:
> Hello all. I hope this hasn't been asked before, but
> I've done some searching and I'm not finding the
> answer.
> 
> I run NetBSD/i386 1.5.2 on an ECS K7VZA motherboard
> (1ghz athlon, 512 meg memory) and I've been having
> some hard disk trouble. There was a bios update that
> included some fixes that looked related but they
> didn't solve the problem.
> 
> I had a Maxtor 40 gig ATA66 drive in there, and I
> ended up losing about a gig of data somehow. I didn't
> write down the errors it was having, but it included
> something like this:
> 
> wd0: XXX XXX XXX soft error (corrected)
> 
> I suspected a bad drive and was recommended to try
> this new 60 gig IBM 60GXP drive. Now I'm getting
> errors which look worse:
> 
> wd0: transfer error, downgrading to DMA mode 2
> wd0(pciide0:0:0): using PIO mode 4, DMA mode 2 (using
> DMA data transfers)
> cd0(pciide0:0:1): using PIO mode 4, Ultra-DMA mode 2
> (using DMA data transfers)
> wd0f: uncorrectable data error reading fsbn 113008 of
> 113008-113017 (wd0 bn 4463536; cn 4428 tn 1 sn 49),
> retrying
> wd0: transfer error, downgrading to PIO mode 4
> wd0(pciide0:0:0): using PIO mode 4
> 
> The fsbn 113008 of 113008-113017 part is repeated
> every time.
> 
> I believe that this means I have some bad areas on the
> hard disk, but am I having some drive controller
> issues as well? I've turned off all possible high

No, it's just that the driver tries to downgrade to a lower mode to
see if that would help solving the problem.
For this type of error it won't, of course.

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
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