Again, this problem I'm seeing on /dev/console is intermittent. But the system otherwise appears to be peforming fine.
It has 2 10krpm 10gb drives (IDE).
Anyone else seeing this problem?
The last build of this system was Oct 24th, I can CVSup and rebuild if there have been some corrections.... ?
Forrest
On 11/05/04 01:22 PM, Forrest Aldrich sat at the `puter and typed:
I have a test machine with FreeBSD-5.3 RC2. It only has 2 drives (ATA). I am seeing this error (intermittently):
ad0: TIMEOUT - WRITE_DMA retrying (2 retries left) LBA=3239915 ad0: FAILURE - WRITE_DMA timed out
Though the system seems to otherwise be working just fine.
This used to be a Windows/XP system for a long time, and I never had any trouble. So I wonder what the above can be indicative of (ie: bad cabling, or?).
&[EMAIL PROTECTED] I was hoping this was a thing of the past.
I've seen this a lot with 5.2.1, but I usually ended up with a siezed system. I don't see how the fact that you had XP on the system could affect FreeBSD.
Exactly what ATA controller do you have? I've run into trouble with the Intel ICH5 SATA controller in a new Dell Dimension 8300. I received *lots* of suggestions that the drive was bad (as per the little sniglet at the bottom), but that isn't the problem - it passed every utility I was able to put it through.
BTW, my drive is a brand new WD 160 Gig.
After days of googling, I found only a few suggestions that the problem was the scheduler and/or the HT processor. I turned HT off in the bios, and it still locks up - especially when shutting down. I've put the hardware through dozens of checks and tests, and there are absolutely no problems except when running FreeBSD with the disk under load. Even XP didn't lock up like this.
I've been holding this new Dell in limbo for nearly 4 months waiting for this exact problem to get fixed. I *really* hate to do it, but I'm going to have to consider Linux if this doesn't get resolved in 5.3. And it looks like it isn't. I know I could get the code and work on it myself, but I'm not a driver engineer, and as much as I'd like to, I don't have the time to learn it right now.
Good luck. Lou -- Louis LeBlanc [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fully Funded Hobbyist, KeySlapper Extrordinaire :) http://www.keyslapper.org ԿԬ
Default, n.: The hardware's, of course.
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