On 2002.10.08 12:17, Christoph Kaegi wrote:
> 
> Hi
> 
> Since this morning, one of my firewalls has the following errors:
> 
> ---------------------------------------- 8< ----------------------------------------
> Oct  8 07:00:42 sstffw /netbsd: pciide0:0:0: lost interrupt
> Oct  8 07:01:34 sstffw /netbsd:         type: ata tc_bcount: 8192 tc_skip: 0
> Oct  8 07:01:34 sstffw /netbsd: pciide0:0:0: bus-master DMA error: missing interrupt, status=0x61
> Oct  8 07:01:34 sstffw /netbsd: pciide0:0:0: device timeout, c_bcount=8192, c_skip0
> Oct  8 07:01:34 sstffw /netbsd: wd0e: device timeout reading fsbn 71549088 of 71549088-71549103 (wd0 bn 75744384; cn 75143 tn 3 sn 51), retrying
> ---------------------------------------- 8< ----------------------------------------
> 
> Would this be the a bad disk or is the motherboard dying?
> 
> The machine is fairly new, 3 months only.
> NetBSD 1.5.3.
> 
> The system ran from 07:00 to about 11:30, then locked up.
> 
> Now it also had a problem with wd1, so I guess it is the motherboard.
> 

The problem was actually a bad disk. They both are on the
same IDE Channel and the defective one seems to have disturbed
the bus so accessing the second, good disk was also impossible and the 
machine locked up.  Maybe it was the electronics that failed.

Regards
Chris

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Christoph Kaegi                                           kgc@zhwin.ch
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