Re: Every 12-hrs -- "ad0: TIMEOUT - WRITE DMA"

2009-10-04 Thread V.I.Victor
[...] >First of all: The disk is *not* dying. "SMART" won't reveal anything. >The behaviour is perfectly normal for IBM-DJNA-3* type disks. > >When those disks are used in continuous operation (24/7), they >will go into automatic maintenance mode after 6 days. This is >kind of a short self-test

Re: Every 12-hrs -- "ad0: TIMEOUT - WRITE DMA"

2009-10-04 Thread Oliver Fromme
This is a reply to a very old thread. I decided to reply because 1. nobody has mentioned the real cause of the problem yet (some answers were misleading or even outright wrong), 2. I've experienced the same problem in the past few weeks, 3. my findings might be useful for other people wh

Re: Every 12-hrs -- "ad0: TIMEOUT - WRITE DMA"

2006-02-20 Thread Jerry Bell
I had a drive dying and it showed up just like this - it turned out to be the daily scripts that scan for file changes, etc, and my backup script were tickling a back sector of the disk. Have you run the smartctl -t long /dev/ad0 command to have it perform a full self test? You normally have

Re: Every 12-hrs -- "ad0: TIMEOUT - WRITE DMA"

2006-02-20 Thread V.I.Victor
On Sun, 19 Feb 2006, Mike Tancsa wrote: > On Sun, 19 Feb 2006 22:21:04 +, in sentex.lists.freebsd.questions > you wrote: > >> On Thu, 16 Feb 2006, Mike Tancsa wrote: >> For the last 4-days, our (otherwise OK) 5.4-RELEASE machine has been reporting: Feb 12 12:08:05 : ad0: TI

Re: Every 12-hrs -- "ad0: TIMEOUT - WRITE DMA"

2006-02-19 Thread Mike Tancsa
On Sun, 19 Feb 2006 22:21:04 +, in sentex.lists.freebsd.questions you wrote: >On Thu, 16 Feb 2006, Mike Tancsa wrote: > >>> For the last 4-days, our (otherwise OK) 5.4-RELEASE machine has been >>> reporting: >>> >>> Feb 12 12:08:05 : ad0: TIMEOUT - WRITE_DMA retrying (2 retries left) >>> LBA=

Re: Every 12-hrs -- "ad0: TIMEOUT - WRITE DMA"

2006-02-19 Thread V.I.Victor
On Thu, 16 Feb 2006, Mike Tancsa wrote: >> For the last 4-days, our (otherwise OK) 5.4-RELEASE machine has been >> reporting: >> >> Feb 12 12:08:05 : ad0: TIMEOUT - WRITE_DMA retrying (2 retries left) >> LBA=2701279 >> Feb 13 00:08:51 : ad0: TIMEOUT - WRITE_DMA retrying (2 retries left) >> LBA=2

Re: Every 12-hrs -- "ad0: TIMEOUT - WRITE DMA"

2006-02-17 Thread Duane Whitty
Fabian Keil wrote: "V.I.Victor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: For the last 4-days, our (otherwise OK) 5.4-RELEASE machine has been reporting: Feb 12 12:08:05 : ad0: TIMEOUT - WRITE_DMA retrying (2 retries left) LBA=2701279 Feb 13 00:08:51 : ad0: TIMEOUT - WRITE_DMA retrying (2 retries left) LBA=2

Re: Every 12-hrs -- "ad0: TIMEOUT - WRITE DMA"

2006-02-17 Thread Fabian Keil
"V.I.Victor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > For the last 4-days, our (otherwise OK) 5.4-RELEASE machine has been > reporting: > > Feb 12 12:08:05 : ad0: TIMEOUT - WRITE_DMA retrying (2 retries left) > LBA=2701279 > Feb 13 00:08:51 : ad0: TIMEOUT - WRITE_DMA retrying (2 retries left) > LBA=2701279

Re: Every 12-hrs -- "ad0: TIMEOUT - WRITE DMA"

2006-02-16 Thread Mike Tancsa
On Thu, 16 Feb 2006 20:10:31 +, in sentex.lists.freebsd.questions you wrote: >For the last 4-days, our (otherwise OK) 5.4-RELEASE machine has been >reporting: > >Feb 12 12:08:05 : ad0: TIMEOUT - WRITE_DMA retrying (2 retries left) >LBA=2701279 >Feb 13 00:08:51 : ad0: TIMEOUT - WRITE_DMA retry

Every 12-hrs -- "ad0: TIMEOUT - WRITE DMA"

2006-02-16 Thread V.I.Victor
For the last 4-days, our (otherwise OK) 5.4-RELEASE machine has been reporting: Feb 12 12:08:05 : ad0: TIMEOUT - WRITE_DMA retrying (2 retries left) LBA=2701279 Feb 13 00:08:51 : ad0: TIMEOUT - WRITE_DMA retrying (2 retries left) LBA=2701279 Feb 13 12:09:38 : ad0: TIMEOUT - WRITE_DMA retrying (2 r