Date: 29 Dec 2004 02:40:15 +0100 From: "Arno J. Klaassen" <arno@heho.snv.jussieu.fr> To: Joe Koberg <joe@osoft.us> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: TIMEOUT - WRITE_DMA - A possible FIX! turn off ACPI Message-ID: <wpu0q5opa8.fsf@heho.snv.jussieu.fr> In-Reply-To: <41D0C51D.8020800@osoft.us> References: <20041209183911.068c9a84.kutizs@axelero.hu> <41D0C51D.8020800@osoft.us>
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Joe Koberg <joe@osoft.us> writes: > Zsolt K=FAti wrote: >=20 > >My system produces these messages that I already know well from this > >list (as well ;): > >ad4: TIMEOUT - WRITE_DMA retrying (2 retries left) LBA=3D213249674 > > > > > Like many people I was confronted with "TIMEOUT - READ_DMA" > and "TIMEOUT - WRITE_DMA" errors on my drives. I was frustrated. > But I found a workaround: Turning off ACPI. dunno, I'd more suspect ACPI<->APIC issues : untill now I only had problems on nForce based systems, but today I=20 installed a brand new VIA based A7VT mini-server and re-voila les "XXX_DMA" errors (and accompanying severe system slow-down). (Disk swapped from the old PII-233 minimalist-server; worked OK there; disabling APIC (in BOIS and/or config and/or hints) made disappear the XXX_DMA messages (and gave me my network connexion back ;) ) whilst ACPI still enabled). FYI, Arno
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