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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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