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Date:      Sun, 16 Feb 2003 13:17:13 -0500 (EST)
From:      Kenneth Culver <culverk@yumyumyum.org>
To:        Trent Nelson <trent@limekiln.vcisp.net>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Worrying ATA problems.
Message-ID:  <20030216131558.P49443-100000@alpha.yumyumyum.org>
In-Reply-To: <20030216181038.GA33183@limekiln.vcisp.net>

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Are you sure the cable on your ad0 maxtor drive is ok? I'm asking because
I had a problem with using some no-name ata cable instead of the one that
came with the drive, and my problem was similar to yours.

Ken

On Sun, 16 Feb 2003, Trent Nelson wrote:

> Hi,
>
>     I've had a new server for a little over three months now that's
>     started running into some worrying ata troubles.  The server is
>     an Athlon XP 1800+, ASUS A7V8X M/B, 1GB PC2700 DDR RAM, 2x 60GB
>     Maxtor (6Y060L0) HDDs.  I've also purchased a ``Sil 0680 ATA133
>     controller'' that provides master ata channels for a spare 30GB
>     drive and my CD-RW.  It's running 4.7-STABLE as of a few days
>
>     The error messages and relevant dmesg output follows.  What do
>     these errors normally indicate?  Dodgy hardware?  The drives
>     are pretty much brand new (< 3 months), as are all the other
>     components.  I don't think it's a cooling problem, either.  I've
>     got a 120mm fan blowing cool air onto the drives, and each drive
>     is fitted with an individual cooling unit (two small fans on the
>     controller-side of the drive).  The air is never more than appro-
>     ximately 20 degrees Celsius in that part of the box.
>
>     Other random tidbits; the server runs VMware and fvcool, as well
>     as a few other standard daemons, but the box is nearly always
>     idle.
>
>     Thanks in advance.
>
>     Regards,
>
>         Trent.
>
>
> ad0: WRITE command timeout tag=0 serv=0 - resetting
> ata0: resetting devices .. done
> ad0s1g: soft error (ECC corrected) reading fsbn 3158527 of 6368-6399 (ad0s1 bn 3158527; cn 196 tn 155 sn 22)ad0s1g: hard error reading fsbn 3158527 of 6368-6399 (ad0s1 bn 3158527; cn 196 tn 155 sn 22)
> trying PIO mode
> ad0: READ command timeout tag=0 serv=0 - resetting
> ata0: resetting devices .. done
> ad0: DMA problem fallback to PIO mode
> ad0: DMA problem fallback to PIO mode
> ad0s1a: soft error (ECC corrected) reading fsbn 24231 of 12076-12095 (ad0s1 bn 24231; cn 1 tn 129 sn 39)ad0s1a: hard error reading f sbn 24231 of 12076-12095 (ad0s1 bn 24231; cn 1 tn 129 sn 39) status=7f error=7f
> ad0: timeout waiting for DRQ - resetting
> ata0: resetting devices .. ata0-slave: ATA identify retries exceeded
> done
> ad0: timeout waiting for DRQ - resetting
> ata0: resetting devices .. done
> ad0s1g: soft error (ECC corrected) reading fsbn 3158527 of 6368-6399
> (ad0s1 bn 3158527; cn 196 tn 155 sn 22)ad0s1g: hard error reading fsbn 3158527 of 6368-6399 (ad0s1 bn 3158527; cn 196 tn 155 sn 22) status=7f error=7f
> ad0: READ command timeout tag=0 serv=0 - resetting
> ata0: resetting devices .. done
> ad0: READ command timeout tag=0 serv=0 - resetting
> ata0: resetting devices .. done
> ad0s1d: soft error (ECC corrected) reading fsbn 72749503 of
> 21170368-21170391 (ad0s1 bn 72749503; cn 4528 tn 114 sn 1)ad0s1d: hard e
> rror reading fsbn 72749503 of 21170368-21170391 (ad0s1 bn 72749503; cn
> 4528 tn 114 sn 1) status=7f error=7f
> spec_getpages:(#ad/0x20003) I/O read failure: (error=5) bp 0xcfeb9390 vp 0xe06f5b40
>                size: 12288, resid: 12288, a_count: 12284, valid: 0x0
>                nread: 0, reqpage: 0, pindex: 0, pcount: 3
> ad0: READ command timeout tag=0 serv=0 - resetting
> ata0: resetting devices .. done
>
>     Relevant dmesg output:
>
> FreeBSD 4.7-STABLE #8: Sat Feb 15 17:44:48 GMT 2003
>     root@zoom.limekiln.vcisp.net:/obj/shared/work/BSD/FreeBSD/FreeBSD-4.x/src/sys/ZOOM
> Timecounter "i8254"  frequency 1193182 Hz
> CPU: AMD Athlon(TM) XP 1800+ (1533.40-MHz 686-class CPU)
> real memory  = 1073725440 (1048560K bytes)
> avail memory = 1041625088 (1017212K bytes)
> atapci0: <Sil 0680 ATA133 controller> port 0x9800-0x980f,0xa000-0xa003,0xa400-0xa407,0xa800-0xa803,0xb000-0xb007 mem 0xeb000000-0xeb 0000ff irq 5 at device 12.0 on pci0
> ata2: at 0xb000 on atapci0
> ata3: at 0xa400 on atapci0
> atapci1: <VIA 8235 ATA133 controller> port 0x8400-0x840f at device 17.1 on pci0
> ata0: at 0x1f0 irq 14 on atapci1
> ata1: at 0x170 irq 15 on atapci1
> ad0: 58644MB <Maxtor 6Y060L0> [119150/16/63] at ata0-master UDMA133
> ad2: 58644MB <Maxtor 6Y060L0> [119150/16/63] at ata1-master UDMA133
> ad4: 28629MB <QUANTUM FIREBALLP AS30.0> [58168/16/63] at ata2-master UDMA100
> acd0: CD-RW <LITE-ON LTR-52246S> at ata3-master UDMA33
>
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