Re: ad0: FAILURE - WRITE_DMA

2004-10-29 Thread Aaron Glenn
Add Western Digital Raptors to the list as well. However I have not had a problem since 5.3-BETA3. aaron.glenn On Fri, 29 Oct 2004 16:57:33 +, Mikhail P. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Friday 29 October 2004 16:50, Mikhail P. wrote: > > Perhaps it is only Seagate <-> FreeBSD5-related. Same d

Re: ad0: FAILURE - WRITE_DMA

2004-10-29 Thread Nguyen Tam Chinh
On Fri, 29 Oct 2004, Mikhail P. wrote: > On Friday 29 October 2004 16:50, Mikhail P. wrote: > > Perhaps it is only Seagate <-> FreeBSD5-related. Same drives, but with > > FreeBSD4 do work well together without a glitch. > > Actually not only seagates.. similar happened on a 200GB Western Digital d

Re: ad0: FAILURE - WRITE_DMA

2004-10-29 Thread Mikhail P.
On Friday 29 October 2004 16:50, Mikhail P. wrote: > Perhaps it is only Seagate <-> FreeBSD5-related. Same drives, but with > FreeBSD4 do work well together without a glitch. Actually not only seagates.. similar happened on a 200GB Western Digital drive to me, FreeBSD-5.3. regards, M. __

Re: ad0: FAILURE - WRITE_DMA

2004-10-29 Thread Mikhail P.
On Friday 29 October 2004 16:44, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > The same problem with similar IDE Seagate HDD: > > ad0: ATA-6 disk at ata0-master > ad0: 152627MB (312581808 sectors), 310101 C, 16 H, 63 S, 512 B > [...] > ad0: FAILURE - READ_DMA status=51 error=10 > LBA=268435455 Perhaps it is only Se

Re: ad0: FAILURE - WRITE_DMA

2004-10-29 Thread soralx
> This sounds very possible to me. I have been experiencing the same > error, on a system that I've been trying to set up using 5.3-RC1 and > a new 160Gbyte SATA drives My hardware is: > > atapci0: port > 0xb000-0xb00f,0xac00-0xac03,0xa800-0xa807,0xa400-0xa403,0xa000-0xa007 mem > 0xdf081000-0xdf0

Re: ad0: FAILURE - WRITE_DMA

2004-10-29 Thread Neil Hoggarth
On 8th October, Mikhail P. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> reported the error: ad0: FAILURE - WRITE_DMA status=51 error=10 LBA=268435455 On Sun, 10 Oct 2004, Søren Schmidt wrote: > so that leaves the disks for scrutiny. One thing to try is change the > tripping point where we switch from 28bit mode to 48 b

Re: ad0: FAILURE - WRITE_DMA

2004-10-28 Thread Mikhail P.
On Sunday 10 October 2004 08:59, Søren Schmidt wrote: > There is definitly something fishy here, since I dont have either the > disks nor any VIA chips here in the lab I cannot do any testing here. > However I dont know of any problems with the VIA chips in this regard, > so that leaves the disks f

Re: ad0: FAILURE - WRITE_DMA

2004-10-14 Thread Mikhail P.
On Thursday 14 October 2004 19:59, Martin Nilsson wrote: > I really don't know what to with this box, maybe put regular ATA or SCSI > disks in it? Well, there are no problems with SCSI to my knowledge 5.3 and 5.2.1 work well on my SCSI servers.. only the ATA driver.. Would be sad to still have th

Re: ad0: FAILURE - WRITE_DMA

2004-10-14 Thread Martin Nilsson
Martin Nilsson wrote / skrev: Something is rotten with ATA on 5.x (or I have a rotten motherboard!) I have an E7320 "Lindenhurst VS 6300ESB box" with 2*3GHz EM64T Xeons and 2*80GB Seagate SATA disks. Sometimes when booting the whole ATA/SATA system hangs after two READ_DMA or WRITE_DMA timeout er

Re: ad0: FAILURE - WRITE_DMA

2004-10-13 Thread Aaron Glenn
I used to get that error prior to 5.3-BETA3 (5.2.1-RELEASE, and all previous 5.3-BETA's). Randomly after reboot the machine would spew about 100 of these and then hardlock. I've got two identical boxes running BETA3 and BETA7 without any issues. Intel 6300ESB controller and Western Digital "Enterp

Re: ad0: FAILURE - WRITE_DMA

2004-10-13 Thread Mikhail P.
On Wednesday 13 October 2004 13:51, Søren Schmidt wrote: > Well, thats not up to me to judge I guess, but have you tried to change > the tripping point for using 48Bit addressing as I suggested earlier ? How one would do it? In BIOS? Forgive my ignorance. > I cant reproduce this problem with any

Re: ad0: FAILURE - WRITE_DMA

2004-10-13 Thread Martin Nilsson
Mikhail P. wrote: Well, now those timeouts popped up on 5.3-BETA7 system with 4 IDE drives.. They start appearing with high disk activity. System had FreeBSD-4.7 prior to that, and has been rock solid for almost a year. Drives have no problems, that's for sure (4.7 did not show up any timeouts,

Re: ad0: FAILURE - WRITE_DMA

2004-10-13 Thread Søren Schmidt
Mikhail P. wrote: On Sunday 10 October 2004 23:30, Mikhail P. wrote: On Saturday 09 October 2004 17:01, Mikhail P. wrote: I also got another message off-list, where author suggested to play with UDMA values. I switched from UDMA100 to UDMA66. System's uptime is 12 hours, and no timeouts so far.. bu

Re: ad0: FAILURE - WRITE_DMA

2004-10-13 Thread Mikhail P.
On Sunday 10 October 2004 23:30, Mikhail P. wrote: > On Saturday 09 October 2004 17:01, Mikhail P. wrote: > > I also got another message off-list, where author suggested to play with > > UDMA values. I switched from UDMA100 to UDMA66. System's uptime is 12 > > hours, and no timeouts so far.. but I'

Re: ad0: FAILURE - WRITE_DMA

2004-10-10 Thread Mikhail P.
On Saturday 09 October 2004 17:01, Mikhail P. wrote: > I also got another message off-list, where author suggested to play with > UDMA values. I switched from UDMA100 to UDMA66. System's uptime is 12 > hours, and no timeouts so far.. but I'm quite sure they will get back in > few days. 1.5 days of

Re: ad0: FAILURE - WRITE_DMA

2004-10-09 Thread Mikhail P.
On Saturday 09 October 2004 20:53, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: > "Mikhail P." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Well, there is no pattern. [...] > > Could be bad cables, could be bad drives. Environmental factors are a > more likely cause, though. Are all the failing disks in the same > machine? I

Re: ad0: FAILURE - WRITE_DMA

2004-10-09 Thread Dag-Erling Smørgrav
"Mikhail P." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Well, there is no pattern. [...] Could be bad cables, could be bad drives. Environmental factors are a more likely cause, though. Are all the failing disks in the same machine? If they're in separate machines, are those rack-mount, or are they standin

Re: ad0: FAILURE - WRITE_DMA

2004-10-09 Thread Mikhail P.
On Saturday 09 October 2004 18:26, Søren Schmidt wrote: > Hmm, that means that the drive couldn't find the sector you asked for. > Now, what has me wondering is that it is the exact sector where we > switch to 48bit adressing mode. Anyhow, I've just checked on the old > Maxtor preproduktion 48bit r

Re: ad0: FAILURE - WRITE_DMA

2004-10-09 Thread Søren Schmidt
Mikhail P. wrote: Hi, This question probably has been discussed numerous times, but I'm somewhat unsure what really causes ATA failures.. I have pretty basic server here which has two IDE drives - each is 200GB. System is FreeBSD-5.2.1-p9 That server has been setup about 9 months ago, and just a

Re: ad0: FAILURE - WRITE_DMA

2004-10-09 Thread Mikhail P.
On Saturday 09 October 2004 16:23, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: > "Mikhail P." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > On Saturday 09 October 2004 15:01, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: > > > A lot of them, or just one or two? Some ATA drives will spin down at > > > regular intervals to recalibrate, and you'll g

Re: ad0: FAILURE - WRITE_DMA

2004-10-09 Thread Dag-Erling Smørgrav
"Mikhail P." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Saturday 09 October 2004 15:01, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: > > A lot of them, or just one or two? Some ATA drives will spin down at > > regular intervals to recalibrate, and you'll get a harmless timeout if > > you try to write to the disk while it's d

Re: ad0: FAILURE - WRITE_DMA

2004-10-09 Thread Dmitry Morozovsky
On Sat, 9 Oct 2004, Mikhail P. wrote: MP> > > I reloaded OS on the new drives, then restored all data from the old MP> > > drives. All seemed to be fine for 2 months now... but today I woke up, MP> > > and noticed these messages again. MP> > MP> > A lot of them, or just one or two? Some ATA drive

Re: ad0: FAILURE - WRITE_DMA

2004-10-09 Thread Mikhail P.
On Saturday 09 October 2004 15:01, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: > "Mikhail P." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I reloaded OS on the new drives, then restored all data from the old > > drives. All seemed to be fine for 2 months now... but today I woke up, > > and noticed these messages again. > > A lo

Re: ad0: FAILURE - WRITE_DMA

2004-10-09 Thread Dag-Erling Smørgrav
"Mikhail P." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I reloaded OS on the new drives, then restored all data from the old drives. > All seemed to be fine for 2 months now... but today I woke up, and noticed > these messages again. A lot of them, or just one or two? Some ATA drives will spin down at regular