From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Oct 4 12:40:10 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A5F9C16A4CE for ; Mon, 4 Oct 2004 12:40:10 +0000 (GMT) Received: from spider.deepcore.dk (cpe.atm2-0-53484.0x50a6c9a6.abnxx9.customer.tele.dk [80.166.201.166]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 044C843D4C for ; Mon, 4 Oct 2004 12:40:10 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from sos@DeepCore.dk) Received: from [172.18.2.1] (axiell-gw1.novi.dk [130.225.63.24]) by spider.deepcore.dk (8.12.11/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i94Ce63s042339; Mon, 4 Oct 2004 14:40:08 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from sos@DeepCore.dk) Message-ID: <416144A0.9070302@DeepCore.dk> Date: Mon, 04 Oct 2004 14:40:00 +0200 From: =?windows-1252?Q?S=F8ren_Schmidt?= User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.7.2 (X11/20040802) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andox References: <4161045F.1060904@telia.com> In-Reply-To: <4161045F.1060904@telia.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-mail-scanned: by DeepCore Virus & Spam killer v1.4 cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ATA problems X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 04 Oct 2004 12:40:10 -0000 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