From owner-freebsd-current Sun Jan 12 23:34:37 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4CF6237B401 for ; Sun, 12 Jan 2003 23:34:36 -0800 (PST) Received: from oak.FernUni-Hagen.de (oak.fernuni-hagen.de [132.176.114.41]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5D2B543F43 for ; Sun, 12 Jan 2003 23:34:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jfh@es-i2.FernUni-Hagen.de) Received: from amavis by oak.FernUni-Hagen.de with scanned-ok (Exim 4.04) id 18Xz7C-0002uJ-00 for freebsd-current@freebsd.org; Mon, 13 Jan 2003 08:34:34 +0100 Received: from es-i2.fernuni-hagen.de ([132.176.7.81]) by oak.FernUni-Hagen.de with esmtp (Exim 4.04) id 18Xz78-0002u3-00 for freebsd-current@freebsd.org; Mon, 13 Jan 2003 08:34:30 +0100 Received: from jfh00.fernuni-hagen.de (jfh00.fernuni-hagen.de [132.176.7.6]) by es-i2.fernuni-hagen.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id A4FE65821; Mon, 13 Jan 2003 08:34:29 +0100 (CET) Received: by jfh00.fernuni-hagen.de (Postfix, from userid 1001) id C4797243D8; Mon, 13 Jan 2003 08:41:14 +0100 (CET) Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2003 08:41:14 +0100 From: Fritz Heinrichmeyer To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: ata timeouts until setting hw.ata.wc to zero Message-ID: <20030113074111.GA3294@jfh00.fernuni-hagen.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.3i X-Virus-Scanned: by AMaViS perl-11 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG last week i was in fear of a complete data loss as my freebsd current system freezed with ata ad0 timeout like this. kernel: ad0: READ command timeout tag=0 serv=0 - resetting It was still "living" as it reacted on pings. Hardware: ad0: 76345MB [155114/16/63] at ata0-master UDMA100 CPU: AMD Athlon(TM) XP1600+ (1410.21-MHz 686-class CPU) acpi0: on motherboard now with hw.ata.wc=0, that means without write cache it works again, but slower. I will try a fresh makeworld now ... Greetings -- Fritz Heinrichmeyer mailto:fritz.heinrichmeyer@fernuni-hagen.de FernUniversitaet Hagen, LG ES, 58084 Hagen (Germany) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message