Date: Mon, 04 Oct 2004 14:40:00 +0200 From: =?windows-1252?Q?S=F8ren_Schmidt?= <sos@DeepCore.dk> To: Andox <andox@telia.com> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ATA problems Message-ID: <416144A0.9070302@DeepCore.dk> In-Reply-To: <4161045F.1060904@telia.com> References: <4161045F.1060904@telia.com>
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Andox wrote: > Thanks, S=F8ren for looking into this problem. I have had it since 5.2.= 1=20 > release. > With your latest fix committed to RELENG_5 my computer is more stable=20 > but it=92s > not 100% yet. I still get lookups then copying files between two disks.= > My test is to copy some DVDs of total 22GB from one disk to another and= =20 > after > some minutes the computer crashes with no error message in=20 > /var/log/messages. Hmm, have you tried an uptodate -current kernel lately ? > Also then mounting disks, I get: > adX: TIMEOUT - READ_DMA retrying (2 retries left) LBA=3DXXXXXXXXX > Usually I get one of these messages for each 'mount'. > These messages seem harmless but still they show up. >=20 > I am using ATAIDLE (/usr/ports/sysutils/ataidle) with the mounted disks= =20 > if this matters=85 Hmm, you will get a timeout on the disks if they spun down since they'll = have to get wacked to come back to life. At any rate the number of problem reports on using ataidle in this setup = is increasing so my standpoint of it being a bad idea and keeping it out = of ATA as such seems to hold ;) PLEASE try to run without ataidle for a while and see if behavior=20 changes.... --=20 -S=F8ren
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