From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jun 20 10:48:49 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 1705816A41C for ; Mon, 20 Jun 2005 10:48:49 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from rb@gid.co.uk) Received: from gidgate.gid.co.uk (gid.co.uk [194.32.164.225]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5A1EB43D1F for ; Mon, 20 Jun 2005 10:48:47 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from rb@gid.co.uk) Received: (from rb@localhost) by gidgate.gid.co.uk (8.11.7/8.11.6) id j5KAmke09974; Mon, 20 Jun 2005 11:48:46 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from rb) Message-Id: <6.2.0.14.2.20050620114339.04461da8@gid.co.uk> X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 6.2.0.14 Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2005 11:48:38 +0100 To: Tony Byrne , freebsd-stable@freebsd.org From: Bob Bishop In-Reply-To: <67335859.20050620110953@byrnehq.com> References: <8d02aed00506181404642100b9@mail.gmail.com> <42B5DAEA.4040908@nurfuerspam.de> <8d02aed005061918049c8fd8@mail.gmail.com> <67335859.20050620110953@byrnehq.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Cc: Subject: Re[2]: ATA_DMA errors (and fs corruption!) 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, 20 Jun 2005 10:48:49 -0000 At 11:09 20/06/2005, Tony Byrne wrote: >[...] > Of course, there >can be hardware reasons for timeouts such as a dying disk or cable, >but I think we've eliminated these in our case. [etc] Don't ignore the possibility of failing controller hardware. We had comparable mysterious problems on a client system, causing a lot of head-scratching. Eventually the failure went hard and we had to replace the motherboard. -- Bob Bishop +44 (0)118 940 1243 rb@gid.co.uk fax +44 (0)118 940 1295