From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 17 01:09:04 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 6F00416A41F for ; Tue, 17 Jan 2006 01:09:04 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from markir@paradise.net.nz) Received: from linda-1.paradise.net.nz (bm-1a.paradise.net.nz [203.96.152.180]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EC54A43D48 for ; Tue, 17 Jan 2006 01:09:03 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from markir@paradise.net.nz) Received: from smtp-2.paradise.net.nz (tclsnelb1-src-1.paradise.net.nz [203.96.152.172]) by linda-1.paradise.net.nz (Paradise.net.nz) with ESMTP id <0IT700G45PV202@linda-1.paradise.net.nz> for freebsd-stable@freebsd.org; Tue, 17 Jan 2006 14:09:02 +1300 (NZDT) Received: from [192.168.1.11] (218-101-28-173.dsl.clear.net.nz [218.101.28.173]) by smtp-2.paradise.net.nz (Postfix) with ESMTP id E1E4C12046D8; Tue, 17 Jan 2006 14:09:01 +1300 (NZDT) Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2006 14:09:00 +1300 From: Mark Kirkwood In-reply-to: <53086.203.107.193.254.1137430589.squirrel@203.107.193.254> To: pkrisada@ego.co.th Message-id: <43CC43AC.7010600@paradise.net.nz> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset=TIS-620 Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit X-Accept-Language: en-us, en User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (X11/20051106) References: <53086.203.107.193.254.1137430589.squirrel@203.107.193.254> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 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: Tue, 17 Jan 2006 01:09:04 -0000 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