From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Feb 17 01:12:13 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D458F16A420 for ; Fri, 17 Feb 2006 01:12:13 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) Received: from smarthost2.sentex.ca (smarthost2.sentex.ca [205.211.164.50]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7D77E43D48 for ; Fri, 17 Feb 2006 01:12:13 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) Received: from BLUELAPIS.sentex.ca (cage.simianscience.com [64.7.134.1]) by smarthost2.sentex.ca (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id k1H1CCi0096824; Thu, 16 Feb 2006 20:12:12 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) From: Mike Tancsa To: "V.I.Victor" Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2006 20:12:21 -0500 Message-ID: <0m8av15mf69poggbn2l028np6d5cptlsic@4ax.com> References: In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: Forte Agent 1.93/32.576 English (American) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.51 on 205.211.164.50 Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Every 12-hrs -- "ad0: TIMEOUT - WRITE DMA" X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2006 01:12:13 -0000 On Thu, 16 Feb 2006 20:10:31 +0000, in sentex.lists.freebsd.questions you wrote: >For the last 4-days, our (otherwise OK) 5.4-RELEASE machine has been >reporting: > >Feb 12 12:08:05 : ad0: TIMEOUT - WRITE_DMA retrying (2 retries left) = LBA=3D2701279 >Feb 13 00:08:51 : ad0: TIMEOUT - WRITE_DMA retrying (2 retries left) = LBA=3D2701279 >Feb 13 12:09:38 : ad0: TIMEOUT - WRITE_DMA retrying (2 retries left) = LBA=3D2963331 >Feb 14 00:10:24 : ad0: TIMEOUT - WRITE_DMA retrying (2 retries left) = LBA=3D2705947 > >So -- can anyone help track this down? It sounds like a hardware issue. Install /usr/ports/sysutils/smartmontools and "ask" the drive to see whats up. ---Mike -------------------------------------------------------- Mike Tancsa, Sentex communications http://www.sentex.net Providing Internet Access since 1994 mike@sentex.net, (http://www.tancsa.com)