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Subject: Re: ATA problems with 5.5-PRERELEASE
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Alfred Perlstein wrote:
> * S?ren Schmidt <sos@deepcore.dk> [060309 08:45] wrote:
>> Alfred Perlstein wrote:
>>> Hello, we recently began deploying 5.5-PRERELEASE dated
>>> March 7th.
>>>
>>> Across all (7 so far) of our machines we're getting the following error:
>>>
>>> ad0: TIMEOUT - WRITE_DMA retrying (2 retries left) LBA=32176383
>>> ad0: TIMEOUT - WRITE_DMA retrying (2 retries left) LBA=15514623
>>> ad0: TIMEOUT - WRITE_DMA retrying (2 retries left) LBA=34480383
>>>
>>> Looks like we were getting corrupt data.
>>>
>>> Any hints?
>> Not from this end, I havn't touched ATA in 5.x for well over a year.
>>
>>> Can this be looked into please?
>> I wont be able to unless someone contracts me to do it, sorry but I have 
>> to prioritize my sparse spare time...
> 
> *sigh*
> 
> I'll keep it mind when deploying from now on.

You *really* should use 6.x you know...

> I just think that maybe the 5.5 release notes might include
> a blurb like:
> 
> "sorry we broke ata somewhere between 5.4 and 5.5, don't
> upgrade if you're using IDE hardware."
> 
> Would that work?

Ask those that broke it, I havn't been in there since just before 
5.3RELEASE and havn't followed what has been changed/added in there.

-Søren