From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jun 19 22:44:14 2003 Return-Path: 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 7927B37B401 for ; Thu, 19 Jun 2003 22:44:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp807.mail.sc5.yahoo.com (smtp807.mail.sc5.yahoo.com [66.163.168.186]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 137BF43FAF for ; Thu, 19 Jun 2003 22:44:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sewall@ix.netcom.com) Received: from adsl-63-198-181-47.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net (HELO ix.netcom.com) (sewall@pacbell.net@63.198.181.47 with plain) by smtp-sbc-v1.mail.vip.sc5.yahoo.com with SMTP; 20 Jun 2003 05:44:13 -0000 Message-ID: <3EF2A452.156DF49E@ix.netcom.com> Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2003 23:06:10 -0700 From: "Scott R. Sewall" Organization: Rosetta software X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en,pdf MIME-Version: 1.0 To: stable@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: pst: timeout mfa=0x00327b90 cmd=WRITE X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2003 05:44:14 -0000 I installed a Promise SuperTrak SX6000 ATA RAID controller on 4.8-RELEASE. The following message is logged when the device is under load (equivalent of make release): pst: timeout mfa=0x00327b90 cmd=WRITE Should I be concerned? Does the I/O fail and the driver simply not report the failure to the application? -- Scott