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Date:      Thu, 06 Apr 2000 13:44:02 -0700
From:      Kent Stewart <kstewart@3-cities.com>
To:        Palle Girgensohn <girgen@partitur.se>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: ad0: WRITE command timeout - resetting
Message-ID:  <38ECF712.5A366C8B@3-cities.com>
References:  <38EC873E.9DF38727@partitur.se> <38ECAFFB.1F9BDDB4@3-cities.com> <38ECC74F.C6BE12B4@partitur.se>

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Palle Girgensohn wrote:
> 
> > Palle Girgensohn wrote:
> > >
> > > Hi!
> > >
> > > What's this? Shall I bother?
> > >
> > > ad0: WRITE command timeout - resetting
> > > ata0: resetting devices .. done
> 
> Hmm.. Information was a bit sparse :)
> 
> FreeBSD 4-STABLE. rather fresh sources. There is more than one
> system acting up.
> They all use IDE, and all have "options ATA_ENABLE_ATAPI_DMA".

There was a series of discussion setting around 4.0 and drives with
this problem. The usual comment was to disable dma before disk
corruption occurs. 

Look at the archives for freebsd-stable for messages on ATA and UDMA.
I've deleted them from my email.

Kent

> 
> Here's the boot dmesg of one of them. It halted about a minute at
> startup, with the timeout messages popping up:
> 
> atapci0: <Intel PIIX3 ATA controller> port 0xf000-0xf00f at
> device 7.1 on pci0
> ata0: at 0x1f0 irq 14 on atapci0
> ata1: at 0x170 irq 15 on atapci0
> ...
> ad0: 9641MB <IBM-DTTA-371010> [19590/16/63] at ata0-master using
> WDMA2
> ad1: 9641MB <IBM-DTTA-371010> [19590/16/63] at ata1-master using
> WDMA2
> Mounting root from ufs:/dev/ad0s1a
> vinum: loaded
> de0: enabling 100baseTX port
> ad1: READ command timeout - resetting
> ata1: resetting devices .. done
> ad1: READ command timeout - resetting
> ata1: resetting devices .. done
> ad1: READ command timeout - resetting
> ata1: resetting devices .. done
> ad1: READ command timeout - resetting
> ata1-master: WARNING: WAIT_READY active=ATA_ACTIVE_ATA
> ad1: trying fallback to PIO mode
> ata1: resetting devices .. done
> vinum: reading configuration from /dev/ad1s1f
> vinum: updating configuration from /dev/ad0s1f
> 
> The other machine is not running vinum:
> ad0: WRITE command timeout - resetting
> ata0: resetting devices .. done
> 
> /Palle
> 
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