Re: Please explain this disk (?) error

2008-01-11 Thread Josh Grosse
On Fri, 11 Jan 2008 16:05:49 +0100, jere wrote
> wd0(pciide1:0:0): timeout
>  type: ata
>  c_bcount: 16384
>  c_skip: 0
> pciide1:0:0: bus-master DMA error: missing interrupt, status=0x21
> wd0h: device timeout writing fsbn 87668544 of 87668544-87668575 (wd0 
> bn 144972399; cn 9024 tn 29 sn 12), retrying wd0: soft error 
> (corrected)
> 
> I suddenly got this error (while surfing the web in default Gnome 
> session) on OpenBSD 4.2 release (patched up to patch_004, including 
> it).
> 
> Is it a disk error or something else ? Please help.

It is a disk error.  At first, the disk did not respond, hence the "missing
intterupt."  The OS tried again, and the disk eventually responded.  The OS
classified this as a "soft" error, meaning it was corrected via retry.

It is time to run a disk analysis.  The built-in atactl(8) program can get you
information from the drive's SMART electronics, but I prefer the smartmontools
package.

Good luck!



Re: Please explain this disk (?) error

2008-01-11 Thread eric-list-openbsd-misc
On Fri, 2008-01-11 at 16:05:49 +0100, jere proclaimed...

> I suddenly got this error (while surfing the web in default Gnome 
> session) on OpenBSD 4.2 release (patched up to patch_004, including it).
> 
> Is it a disk error or something else ? Please help.
> 

This is just a soft disk error; you may have problems with your hard disk in
the future, but if you're only seeing a small number, I wouldn't worry
muchyet.

Dobar dan!

- Eric



Please explain this disk (?) error

2008-01-11 Thread jere

wd0(pciide1:0:0): timeout
type: ata
c_bcount: 16384
c_skip: 0
pciide1:0:0: bus-master DMA error: missing interrupt, status=0x21
wd0h: device timeout writing fsbn 87668544 of 87668544-87668575 (wd0 bn 
144972399; cn 9024 tn 29 sn 12), retrying

wd0: soft error (corrected)


I suddenly got this error (while surfing the web in default Gnome 
session) on OpenBSD 4.2 release (patched up to patch_004, including it).


Is it a disk error or something else ? Please help.

j.