You can get your ATA controller by looking for "ATA" in
/var/run/dmesg.boot.
And FTR, my problem is intermittent too, but seems to lock the system up
with partition corruption when the disk is under heavy load.
Good luck.
Lou
On 11/05/04 03:26 PM, Forrest Aldrich sat at the `puter and typed:
> So
Sorry, I should have specified the system. This is an older Compaq
AP200. I've not idea what controller it's using on the motherboard, but
can try Googling to find out. The processor is 500mhz, and has a
reasonable amount of RAM.
Again, this problem I'm seeing on /dev/console is intermitten
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
>
> T
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
