From owner-freebsd-current Sun Dec 12 23:38: 9 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mass.cdrom.com (castles516.castles.com [208.214.165.80]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3EC9614C8D for ; Sun, 12 Dec 1999 23:38:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from msmith@mass.cdrom.com) Received: from mass.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mass.cdrom.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id XAA05787; Sun, 12 Dec 1999 23:39:59 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from msmith@mass.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <199912130739.XAA05787@mass.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: Soren Schmidt Cc: haro@tk.kubota.co.jp (Munehiro Matsuda), freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ATA weird message? In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 13 Dec 1999 08:33:43 +0100." <199912130733.IAA26820@freebsd.dk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Date: Sun, 12 Dec 1999 23:39:59 -0800 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > It seems Munehiro Matsuda wrote: > > Hi all, > > = > > I am using -current as of December 9 (CTM:src-cur.4130.gz), and > > got following weird ATA related messages while 'make -j4 buildworld'.= > > I never had this kind of message when using wd drivers. > > = > > ata0-master: ad_timeout: lost disk contact - resetting > > ata0: resetting devices .. done > = > Hmm, maybe the timeout in ata-disk.c is too short, try increasing > the 5*hz to say 10*hz in line 436, and see if that changes anything.. Ugh. Are we still using these short timeouts for I/O transaction = completion? Much pain some time back established that we need at least = 30 seconds for some drives doing internal error recovery, and as long as = the drive is returning something sensible (ie. still busy), we should = give it at least that long. -- = \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith \\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself, \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ and he'll hate you for a lifetime. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message