From owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Nov 25 17:03:09 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 70E2F16A4CE for ; Thu, 25 Nov 2004 17:03:09 +0000 (GMT) Received: from server1.ewido.net (server1.ewido.net [62.146.43.66]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 84BF543D2F for ; Thu, 25 Nov 2004 17:03:08 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from paul@ewido.net) Received: from bbox (pD9E00073.dip.t-dialin.net [217.224.0.115]) by server1.ewido.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2D86A4A8026 for ; Thu, 25 Nov 2004 18:03:06 +0100 (CET) To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org From: Paul Kaletta Date: Thu, 25 Nov 2004 18:03:01 +0100 Message-ID: <86pt216euy.fsf@ewido.net> User-Agent: Gnus/5.1006 (Gnus v5.10.6) XEmacs/21.4 (Reasonable Discussion, berkeley-unix) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Subject: Promise IDE Controller with Maxtor-Drive stalls Computer X-BeenThere: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion of FreeBSD hardware List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 25 Nov 2004 17:03:09 -0000 Hi, I have the following problem, and I suppose it has something to do with my hardware, although I don't know the exact cause. I have a Celeron 433 running in a MSI-6117 Motherboard (that's a Intel LX based board with a 66 MHz frontside-bus). Since the onboard-IDE controller can only handle hard-drives up to 8GB, I have a Promise PDC20262 UDMA66 controller plugged into a PCI-slot. There's currently a Maxtor 120GB hard-disk attached to it. In random intervals (sometimes a few minutes, sometimes a few hours) I get an error that looks like this: ad4: TIMEOUT - WRITE_DMA retrying (2 retries left) LBA=175339620 ad4: TIMEOUT - WRITE_DMA retrying (2 retries left) LBA=175351972 ad4: WARNING - WRITE_DMA interrupt was seen but timeout fired LBA=175339629 ad4: WARNING - WRITE_DMA interrupt was seen but taskque stalled LBA=175339620 - I tried several standard IDE cables and two different UDMA-66 cables. (It feels like the error occurred more often with the UDMA-66 cables, but it still occurs with standard IDE ones). - I tried putting the card in a different PCI-slot (No difference) - I tried several different hard-drives (The error also occurs with a UDMA-66 Maxtor 80 GB Hard-disk, but does not seem to occur with a 10GB Fujitsu hard-disk (UDMA-33 only). So I thought that the Maxtor-drives overheat, so I mounted one of them in an aluminium-frame and put in a small cooler. The interval before an error appears increased quite a lot. The overheating assumptions was also supported by my observations that the drive fails less often with a UDMA-33-cable (half of the frequency, half of the heat). Now the hard-drive is really cool, but the error isn't entirely gone. - I tried to update the IDE-card firmware, but it already has the most recent version installed This error (and especially the randomness) drives me nuts! I have really no idea what I can do now. Can anybody explain to me, what _exactly_ the error-message means? Or does anybody have an idea which options I have for further investigations? Thanks Paul PS: dmesg gives me (with the Maxtor connected via a standard IDE cable): Copyright (c) 1992-2004 The FreeBSD Project. Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. FreeBSD 5.2.1-RELEASE #0: Mon Feb 23 20:45:55 GMT 2004 root@wv1u.btc.adaptec.com:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC Preloaded elf kernel "/boot/kernel/kernel" at 0xc0a09000. Preloaded elf module "/boot/kernel/snd_emu10k1.ko" at 0xc0a091f4. Preloaded elf module "/boot/kernel/snd_pcm.ko" at 0xc0a092a4. Timecounter "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz quality 0 CPU: Pentium II/Pentium II Xeon/Celeron (434.32-MHz 686-class CPU) Origin = "GenuineIntel" Id = 0x665 Stepping = 5 Features=0x183f9ff real memory = 201261056 (191 MB) avail memory = 185851904 (177 MB) Pentium Pro MTRR support enabled npx0: [FAST] npx0: on motherboard npx0: INT 16 interface pcibios: BIOS version 2.10 Using $PIR table, 7 entries at 0xc00fdeb0 pcib0: at pcibus 0 on motherboard pci0: on pcib0 pci_cfgintr: 0:7 INTD BIOS irq 10 pci_cfgintr: 0:15 INTA BIOS irq 12 pci_cfgintr: 0:16 INTA BIOS irq 5 pci_cfgintr: 0:18 INTA BIOS irq 11 agp0: mem 0xe0000000-0xe3ffffff at device 0.0 on pci0 pcib1: at device 1.0 on pci0 pci1: on pcib1 pci1: at device 0.0 (no driver attached) atapci1: port 0xb800-0xb83f,0xb400-0xb403,0xb000-0xb007,0x ac00-0xac03,0xa800-0xa807 mem 0xe9000000-0xe901ffff irq 5 at device 16.0 on pci0 atapci1: [MPSAFE] ata2: at 0xa800 on atapci1 ata2: [MPSAFE] ata3: at 0xb000 on atapci1 ata3: [MPSAFE] pcm0: port 0xbc00-0xbc1f irq 11 at device 18.0 on pci0 pcm0: orm0: