Date: Sat, 13 Nov 2004 00:38:41 -0800 From: "Zoltan Frombach" <tssajo@hotmail.com> To: <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>, "Garance A Drosihn" <drosih@rpi.edu>, "Robert Watson" <rwatson@freebsd.org>, =?iso-8859-1?Q?S=F8ren_Schmidt?= <sos@DeepCore.dk> Subject: Re: 5.3-RELEASE: WARNING - WRITE_DMA interrupt timout Message-ID: <BAY2-DAV4h0Lc5T9Cfm00015c59@hotmail.com> References: <BAY2-DAV8jQHtMFauky0000f07f@hotmail.com> <p06020404bdb94f75aa0b@[128.113.24.47]>
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This is still an issue for me. Please read this post of mine: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2004-November/009420.html Can anyone help? I would gladely install test patches to track this problem down. My system is 5.3-R. And the WRITE_DMA warning happens at least twice a day, it is so predictable. With thanks, Zoltan Subject: Re: 5.3-RELEASE: WARNING - WRITE_DMA interrupt timout - what does it mean? > At 7:58 PM -0800 11/9/04, Zoltan Frombach wrote: >>Well, since I posted my original message, I investigated >>this a bit further. And according to this post >>http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2004-May/027235.html >>this is not necessarily an indication of a failing hard >>drive... (Quote: "there is no harm done, but the taskqueue >>was slow to respond...") And I can also tell you that this >>very same hard drive *never* produced this error message in >>the past 6 months while running FreeBSD 5.2-CURRENT (from >>May 9, 2004). > > Fwiw, I am also seeing this warning/error message on a brand new > machine with a brand new SATA hard disk in it. I have seen the > message on multiple installs into different partitions on the same > hard drive. I turned off some sysctl (hw.ata.ata_dma, *I think*) > to see if that would avoid the problem, but it did not seem to. > > I usually do not notice any problem at the same time as the message, > but I have seen a few buildworlds which just happened to abort at > the same second this warning message appeared in /var/log/message. > So, I am not sure the message is benign in all circumstances. > > I'm a bit busy with a variety of other issues right now, but I > should have some time this coming weekend to run any tests or > patches that might help to pin this down. > > -- > Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@gilead.netel.rpi.edu > Senior Systems Programmer or gad@freebsd.org > Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute or drosih@rpi.edu
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