Date: Mon, 04 Oct 2004 22:27:29 +0200 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?S=F8ren_Schmidt?= <sos@DeepCore.dk> To: Ion-Mihai Tetcu <itetcu@people.tecnik93.com> Cc: doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: persisting ATA problems Message-ID: <4161B231.6010204@DeepCore.dk> In-Reply-To: <20041004231755.4de8f22b@it.buh.tecnik93.com> References: <1096836705.1446.4.camel@ares.office.internetservice.cz> <20041004172557.26d69489@it.buh.tecnik93.com> <1096911187.643.3.camel@ares.office.internetservice.cz> <4161A8AA.4090702@DeepCore.dk> <20041004231755.4de8f22b@it.buh.tecnik93.com>
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Ion-Mihai Tetcu wrote: > On Mon, 04 Oct 2004 21:46:50 +0200 > Søren Schmidt <sos@DeepCore.dk> wrote: > > [ ... ] > > >>>Today I had the following in log: >>> >>>ad0: WARNING - WRITE_DMA interrupt was seen but timeout fired LBA=637375 >>> >>>i don`t know exactly what does it mean and if data was written or not.. >>>can anybody explain it? >> >>It just means that the data has hit the disk but the taskqueue that >>should return data to the system hasn't yet. This is a warning ... > > I would suggest an entry in the FAQ explaining the *_DMA errors; Søren, > I can do the SGML formatting if you send me some text. First of, they are not just about _DMA, and there isn't much to explain. There are two types: WARNINGS: just some noise about things that are not as expected, but could be fixed or otherwise worked around, but not yet a: FAILURE: operation failed, uncorrectable error. That is the general meaning of those two words where I come from... -- -Søren
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