From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Jan 21 6:20:24 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from salmon.maths.tcd.ie (salmon.maths.tcd.ie [134.226.81.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2FAEE37B400 for ; Mon, 21 Jan 2002 06:20:17 -0800 (PST) Received: from walton.maths.tcd.ie by salmon.maths.tcd.ie with SMTP id ; 21 Jan 2002 14:20:16 +0000 (GMT) Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2002 14:20:15 +0000 From: David Malone To: Sam Drinkard Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Write command timeout revisited Message-ID: <20020121142015.GA60989@walton.maths.tcd.ie> References: <3C4AE68C.769E28E9@vortex.wa4phy.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3C4AE68C.769E28E9@vortex.wa4phy.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.25i Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, Jan 20, 2002 at 10:47:24AM -0500, Sam Drinkard wrote: > I updated day before yesterday, and now have begun to see the "ad0: > WRITE command timeout > tag=0 serv=0 - resetting " in my syslog again. What was the general > consensus about this, and did anything change between 4.5-Pre and RC-2 > that would start this going again.. It is possible that some patch on your disk is bad and reading/writing it makes the command time out. Upgrading might have changed which bit of the disk is in use provoking the problem. If you want to have a look at the recent changes in the ata code then start at: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/sys/dev/ata/?only_with_tag=RELENG_4 The main change in the last month seems to be 48 bit addressing. David. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message