From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Mar 4 09:47:15 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 027571065677 for ; Tue, 4 Mar 2008 09:47:15 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from oliver@realtsp.com) Received: from piha.realtsp.com (piha.realtsp.com [83.138.152.5]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C50A58FC22 for ; Tue, 4 Mar 2008 09:47:14 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from oliver@realtsp.com) Received: by piha.realtsp.com (Postfix, from userid 58) id 971BF1E8DF5; Tue, 4 Mar 2008 09:10:04 +0000 (GMT) X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.1 (2007-05-02) on piha.realtsp.com X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.3 required=5.0 tests=AWL, RDNS_DYNAMIC autolearn=no version=3.2.1 Received: from [192.168.0.154] (ip-87-86-250-33.easynet.co.uk [87.86.250.33]) by piha.realtsp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id A1F261E8DF0 for ; Tue, 4 Mar 2008 09:10:02 +0000 (GMT) Message-ID: <47CD11EB.4070803@realtsp.com> Date: Tue, 04 Mar 2008 09:10:03 +0000 From: Oliver Schonrock User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.12 (X11/20080227) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: FreeBSD Current References: <20080303200219.GF80576@hoeg.nl> <84dead720803032233m6881e888m6ff69c464a4a3d17@mail.gmail.com> <20080304073932.GJ80576@hoeg.nl> In-Reply-To: <20080304073932.GJ80576@hoeg.nl> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Status: No X-Virus-Checker-Version: clamassassin 1.2.4 with clamdscan / ClamAV 0.92.1 Subject: TIMEOUT/FAILURE_WRITE_DMA on ServerWorks HT1000 SATA150 X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 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: Tue, 04 Mar 2008 09:47:15 -0000 We have a Dell SC1435 with the above SATA controller which was running FreeBSD6.2 fine for about 3 months. We re-built it with FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE from scratch (ie complete new install from CD). Installation failed while copying base system from CD to disk. Suspecting a possible hardware issue we rebuilt it again with FreeBSD 6.3. It built and ran fine, thereby eliminating any hardware problems. Repeated attempts of installing FBSD7.0-RELEASE continued to fail at slightly different points, but always when writing to disk. Virtual Console 2 showed the following errors: NMI ISA 20 EISA ad4: TIMEOUT WRITE_DMA aNMI ISA 20, EISA FAILURE - WRITE_DMA. retrying I suspect this is related to other (S)ATA related problems which have been reported on this list, eg: I would be happy to provide more information to help debug this problem, however it is slightly difficult as I cannot even get the system installed under 7.0. Any suggestions on how to get better info. I could also look into providing remote access to the machine. Thanks Oliver Schonrock