From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Feb 16 03:15:26 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BED651065670 for ; Wed, 16 Feb 2011 03:15:26 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from illoai@gmail.com) Received: from mail-fx0-f54.google.com (mail-fx0-f54.google.com [209.85.161.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 52A538FC0A for ; Wed, 16 Feb 2011 03:15:25 +0000 (UTC) Received: by fxm16 with SMTP id 16so932752fxm.13 for ; Tue, 15 Feb 2011 19:15:25 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date :message-id:subject:from:to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=nXx5ex0nr5bVzP1mjfnZXur6tqztuZ4+4plytj7lyFU=; b=PoCREJlFcSBF6LEZd3Z6OtfL4JE/nwZTH/IY9RC9Yz026Mf1+t+pkYbIn6Gx3lb1wZ 8nvntXobwRg4xfBgWWa4t9uHOBKFgG54Zi7r+Iy0On+jelH+2M/YY8IeEaJUBg32QE20 k4q9D/qfGeq7glkd+NcC0j1RyI/Tj3fJmcJHE= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=B/vkor4/0J0e/7N6xOlvujQtpTZBGgQPdpssnKIkWf3FBM3E+ebX5IekRgAFKH+sXf IeQ/Nm2wdnfQkJWAX1lRDkdO21/E5DjxTc91bS3W91PDCdGDWK0y4e4xpesn7d/xPg1b +uBzKMa4ypqreHZtK1Pf7McEqAwUfjD5N5kcI= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.223.118.136 with SMTP id v8mr29004faq.90.1297824612857; Tue, 15 Feb 2011 18:50:12 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.223.103.4 with HTTP; Tue, 15 Feb 2011 18:50:12 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <20110215221417.GC2049@comcast.net> References: <20110214003704.GA2049@comcast.net> <20110215221417.GC2049@comcast.net> Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2011 21:50:12 -0500 Message-ID: From: "illoai@gmail.com" To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Subject: Re: 8.2-PRERELEASE generating warnings re my hard drive 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: Wed, 16 Feb 2011 03:15:26 -0000 On 15 February 2011 17:14, Charlie Kester wrote: > On Sun 13 Feb 2011 at 16:37:04 PST Charlie Kester wrote: >> >> I'm running 8-STABLE, i386 architecture, and yesterday I updated to the >> latest version with cvsup. >> >> After installing the kernel and rebooting, I see the following messages = on >> the console: >> >> ad4: WARNING - SETFEATURES SET TRANSFER MODE requeued due to channel res= et >> =A0ad4: interrupt on idle channel ignored >> ad4: WARNING - SETFEATURES SET TRANSFER MODE requeued due to channel res= et >> ad4: interrupt on idle channel ignored >> >> (repeated several times, and then the following:) >> ad4: WARNING - SETFEATURES SET TRANSFER MODE taskqueue timeout - >> completing request directly ad4: 238475MB at >> ata2-master UDMA100 SATA 1.5Gb/s >> >> (shortly afterwards, I see this:) >> >> Trying to mount root from ufs:/dev/ad4s1a >> ad4: WARNING - READ_DMA requeued due to channel reset LBA=3D33963227 >> ata2: FAILURE - already active DMA on this device >> ata2: setting up DMA failed >> g_vfs_done():ad4s1f[READ(offset=3D12103825408, length=3D2048)]error =3D = 5 >> ad4: WARNING - READ_DMA requeued due to channel reset LBA=3D705199 >> ata2: FAILURE - already active DMA on this device >> ata2: setting up DMA failed >> >> (which then repeats many times with different LBA and offset values.) >> >> Similar messages appear after bootup is completed and I've logged in. >> They seem to appear whenever any process accesses the hard drive. >> >> I reverted back to my previous build of the kernel, dated 3 Feb 2011, >> and these messages no longer appear. >> >> smartctl reports that the drive is running without any errors or >> incipient failures. >> >> So my question is, what's going on here? =A0Is this something I should >> worry about? =A0If it's a problem with my kernel config, what parameters >> should I be looking at? >> >> Motherboard: Intel D510MO with builtin IDE controller (NM10). > > Anyone? > > If this isn't the best forum for this question, I'd appreciate a > redirection. This looks like the only change under ATA since your Feb 3rd kernel: http://svn.freebsd.org/viewvc/base/stable/8/sys/dev/ata/chipsets/ata-intel.= c?r1=3D215512&r2=3D218347 I have no idea what it means, though. --=20 --