From owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jan 22 11:17:08 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 20DEE16A4CE for ; Sat, 22 Jan 2005 11:17:08 +0000 (GMT) Received: from hotmail.com (bay19-f23.bay19.hotmail.com [64.4.53.73]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0528C43D1F for ; Sat, 22 Jan 2005 11:17:08 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jojo472@hotmail.com) Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Sat, 22 Jan 2005 03:16:01 -0800 Message-ID: Received: from 202.137.66.192 by by19fd.bay19.hotmail.msn.com with HTTP; Sat, 22 Jan 2005 11:15:47 GMT X-Originating-IP: [202.137.66.192] X-Originating-Email: [jojo472@hotmail.com] X-Sender: jojo472@hotmail.com From: "Jo Bailey" To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Date: Sat, 22 Jan 2005 22:15:47 +1100 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed X-OriginalArrivalTime: 22 Jan 2005 11:16:01.0238 (UTC) FILETIME=[C130FF60:01C50073] Subject: FAILURE - WRITE_DMA timed out X-BeenThere: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Gathering place for new users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 22 Jan 2005 11:17:08 -0000 I'm getting the following timeout messages, I've copied the interesting dmesg output below. Has anyone got any suggestions on what is causing this or point me in the right direction? The hardware is a standard Acer Altos R310. acpi_cpu: throttling enabled, 8 steps (100% to 12.5%), currently 100.0% acd0: CDROM at ata0-master UDMA33 ad2: 76319MB [155061/16/63] at ata1-master SATA150 Mounting root from ufs:/dev/ad2s1a em0: Link is up 100 Mbps Full Duplex ad2: TIMEOUT - WRITE_DMA retrying (2 retries left) LBA=9611455 ad2: FAILURE - WRITE_DMA timed out ad2: TIMEOUT - WRITE_DMA retrying (2 retries left) LBA=9627231 ad2: FAILURE - WRITE_DMA timed out ad2: TIMEOUT - WRITE_DMA retrying (2 retries left) LBA=5095231 ad2: FAILURE - WRITE_DMA timed out ad2: TIMEOUT - WRITE_DMA retrying (2 retries left) LBA=9611455 ad2: FAILURE - WRITE_DMA timed out ad2: TIMEOUT - WRITE_DMA retrying (2 retries left) LBA=5095231 ad2: FAILURE - WRITE_DMA timed out ad2: TIMEOUT - WRITE_DMA retrying (2 retries left) LBA=9625791 ad2: FAILURE - WRITE_DMA timed out ad2: TIMEOUT - WRITE_DMA retrying (2 retries left) LBA=9611267 ad2: FAILURE - WRITE_DMA timed out ad2: TIMEOUT - WRITE_DMA retrying (2 retries left) LBA=9611455 ad2: FAILURE - WRITE_DMA timed out ad2: TIMEOUT - WRITE_DMA retrying (2 retries left) LBA=9627327 ad2: FAILURE - WRITE_DMA timed out Thank you in advance for any help. Jo _________________________________________________________________ Need a credit card fast? Apply online now! Must be over 18 and AU only: http://ad.au.doubleclick.net/clk;11046970;10638934;f?http://www.anz.com/aus/promo/first1004ninemsn/default.asp