Date: Thu, 09 Mar 2006 18:06:23 +0100 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?S=F8ren_Schmidt?= <sos@deepcore.dk> To: Alfred Perlstein <alfred@freebsd.org> Cc: re@freebsd.org, hardware@freebsd.org, sos@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ATA problems with 5.5-PRERELEASE Message-ID: <4410608F.5030107@deepcore.dk> In-Reply-To: <20060309165440.GI23971@elvis.mu.org> References: <20060309163532.GH23971@elvis.mu.org> <44105B8A.3050102@deepcore.dk> <20060309165440.GI23971@elvis.mu.org>
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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
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