From owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jan 22 20:49:55 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 79B6116A4CE for ; Sat, 22 Jan 2005 20:49:55 +0000 (GMT) Received: from pd3mo3so.prod.shaw.ca (shawidc-mo1.cg.shawcable.net [24.71.223.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3976443D41 for ; Sat, 22 Jan 2005 20:49:55 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from flowers@users.sourceforge.net) Received: from pd4mr7so.prod.shaw.ca (pd4mr7so-qfe3.prod.shaw.ca [10.0.141.84])2004))freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org; Sat, 22 Jan 2005 13:49:54 -0700 (MST) Received: from pn2ml2so.prod.shaw.ca ([10.0.121.146]) by pd4mr7so.prod.shaw.ca (Sun ONE Messaging Server 6.0 HotFix 1.01 (built Mar 15 2004)) with ESMTP id <0IAQ00KTHKJ6QAF0@pd4mr7so.prod.shaw.ca> for freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org; Sat, 22 Jan 2005 13:49:54 -0700 (MST) Received: from procyon.nekulturny.org (S0106000c41b2b9a3.cg.shawcable.net [68.144.45.143]) by l-daemon (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 HotFix 1.18 (built Jul 28 2003)) with ESMTP id <0IAQ0071KKJ6K5@l-daemon> for freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org; Sat, 22 Jan 2005 13:49:54 -0700 (MST) Date: Sat, 22 Jan 2005 13:49:54 -0700 From: Danny MacMillan In-reply-to: To: Jo Bailey Message-id: <20050122204954.GB1163@procyon.nekulturny.org> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-disposition: inline References: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i cc: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 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 20:49:55 -0000 On Sat, Jan 22, 2005 at 10:15:47PM +1100, Jo Bailey wrote: > 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 There's been a lot of traffic on this in -questions@ lately; searching the archives should stand you in good stead. -- Danny