Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2006 14:09:00 +1300 From: Mark Kirkwood <markir@paradise.net.nz> To: pkrisada@ego.co.th Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: System or file system panic on FreeBSD 5.x Message-ID: <43CC43AC.7010600@paradise.net.nz> In-Reply-To: <53086.203.107.193.254.1137430589.squirrel@203.107.193.254> References: <53086.203.107.193.254.1137430589.squirrel@203.107.193.254>
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pkrisada@ego.co.th wrote: > 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. > Looks like hardware - you could install the smartmontools port and check your disk to see. Cheers Mark
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