Yes, I was erring towards that conclusion too. I'll be confirming it in the next day or two and you can have the points.
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Browse All TopicsMy FreeBSD 7.2 server crashed with this error:
Sep 29 01:24:11 serv kernel: ad0: TIMEOUT - WRITE_DMA48 retrying (1 retry left) LBA=1297757535
Sep 29 01:24:11 serv kernel: ad0: FAILURE - WRITE_DMA48 status=51<READY,DSC,ERROR>
Sep 29 01:24:11 serv kernel: g_vfs_done():ad0s1f[WRITE(
What could be causing this? It seems to be under heavy load. Is it a hard-ware issue?
Also, how can I make the server automatically reboot if the above does occur. It simply became unreachable.
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by: nociPosted on 2009-09-29 at 04:26:03ID: 25447694
Here is a whole thread on the FreeBSD list about it.
freebsd-st able/20080 1/ msg00617 .html
http://freebsd.monkey.org/
It probably is hardware related, disk going offline isn't a regular feature.