From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jan 16 16:56:42 2006 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 0AEF716A41F for ; Mon, 16 Jan 2006 16:56:42 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from pkrisada@ego.co.th) Received: from smtp-01.mail.isp.net.th (smtp-01.mail.isp.net.th [202.5.93.210]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7A0C143D4C for ; Mon, 16 Jan 2006 16:56:36 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from pkrisada@ego.co.th) Received: (qmail 14866 invoked by uid 88); 16 Jan 2006 16:56:29 -0000 Received: from 202.5.93.231 by SMTP-01 (envelope-from , uid 91) with qmail-scanner-1.24 (uvscan: v4.4.00/v4674. Clear:RC:1(202.5.93.231):. Processed in 0.309186 secs); 16 Jan 2006 16:56:29 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mail.ego.co.th) (pkrisada@ego.co.th@202.5.93.231) by smtp.mail.isp.net.th with SMTP; 16 Jan 2006 16:56:29 -0000 Received: from 203.107.193.254 (SquirrelMail authenticated user pkrisada@ego.co.th); by mail.ego.co.th with HTTP; Mon, 16 Jan 2006 23:56:29 +0700 (ICT) Message-ID: <53086.203.107.193.254.1137430589.squirrel@203.107.193.254> Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2006 23:56:29 +0700 (ICT) From: pkrisada@ego.co.th To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.3a X-Mailer: SquirrelMail/1.4.3a MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=tis-620 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Importance: Normal Subject: System or file system panic on FreeBSD 5.x 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: Mon, 16 Jan 2006 16:56:42 -0000 Hi all! Once i installed ``old'' FreeBSD 5.0-STABLE with UFS file system. It had been working fine for a while without any problems but sometime later; it showed error messages on ttyv0; each error stated > ad1: TIMEOUT - READ_DMA retrying (2 retries left) LBA=17998815 (each error came with variant LBA value) I just ignored it, but these error messages were happened quite often after the first occurrence. Then the system was down to reboot without prompting, and this problem was still after reboot. Again and again, the last occurence of error rendered system unbootable. So I switched to FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE with UFS2 file system (fresh installation) It had been working fine for long. But yesterday I got the same error. It was down to reboot and the problem still persisted after reboot. Currently the system is still bootable, but I'm afraid that the final result of unbootability will happen soon. Additional info: # uname -a FreeBSD bsdhost.localdomain 5.4-RELEASE FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE #0: Sun May 8 10:21:06 UTC 2005 root@harlow.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386 I have 2 IDE hard disks, ad0 is used by many systems i.e. windows, linux 2.4.x, 2.6.x without any problems, but ad1 is only used by FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE (but not dangerously dedicated) I guess it should not be a hardware problem because fresh installation can fix it at least for a while. Any idea would be much appreciated. Thanks, pongthep