From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jun 5 13:10:40 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 193CD16A41C for ; Sun, 5 Jun 2005 13:10:40 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from andymac@bullseye.apana.org.au) Received: from mail.acis.com.au (atlantis.acis.com.au [203.14.230.6]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6BD1B43D53 for ; Sun, 5 Jun 2005 13:10:36 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from andymac@bullseye.apana.org.au) Received: (qmail 97819 invoked from network); 5 Jun 2005 13:10:33 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO bullseye.apana.org.au) (210.8.160.3) by atlantis.acis.com.au with SMTP; 5 Jun 2005 13:10:33 -0000 Received: from [203.9.107.238] (tenring.andymac.org [203.9.107.238]) by bullseye.apana.org.au (8.12.8p1/8.12.8) with ESMTP id j55D1wOL006174; Sun, 5 Jun 2005 23:01:58 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from andymac@bullseye.apana.org.au) Message-ID: <42A2E816.7060209@bullseye.apana.org.au> Date: Sun, 05 Jun 2005 22:55:02 +1100 From: Andrew MacIntyre User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (OS/2/20050322) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Tony Byrne References: <1117573047.3095.24.camel@klotz.local> <1684114034.20050601135752@byrnehq.com> <1117645070.1846.8.camel@klotz.local> <1148797372.20050601182156@byrnehq.com> <1436791778.20050602094855@byrnehq.com> In-Reply-To: <1436791778.20050602094855@byrnehq.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: FreeBSD Stable , Tony Byrne Subject: Re: ATA DMA timeouts X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 05 Jun 2005 13:10:40 -0000 Tony Byrne wrote: > Martin, > > TB> We're now at 2 hours uptime and there is no sign of the ATA > TB> timeouts. With the newer kernels the first timeout would appear > TB> within 5 to 10 minutes of rebooting. I can't see any changes to > TB> the ATA code in the interim so I'm curious as to what could have > TB> caused this issue. > > TB> My hardware is Intel ICH5 based with a Western Digital SATA hard-disk. > > Well it was too good to last. I came in this morning to find a handful > of "ad0: TIMEOUT - ..." in the messages file. It looks like the > nightly cron jobs trigger it even for kernel and world prior to May > 9th. I get the sense that there are less timeouts with the older > kernel, but it could be wishful thinking. If your timeouts have really > gone away then it's possible that our problem has a different cause to > yours. > > Can anyone else shed some light on this issue? I've just been through something like this, eventually traced to one rail (+5V) on the power supply sagging out of tolerance. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Andrew I MacIntyre "These thoughts are mine alone..." E-mail: andymac@bullseye.apana.org.au (pref) | Snail: PO Box 370 andymac@pcug.org.au (alt) | Belconnen ACT 2616 Web: http://www.andymac.org/ | Australia