From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Apr 10 14:26:29 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6453316A401 for ; Mon, 10 Apr 2006 14:26:29 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bc3910@yahoo.com) Received: from web30607.mail.mud.yahoo.com (web30607.mail.mud.yahoo.com [68.142.200.130]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 965EA43D73 for ; Mon, 10 Apr 2006 14:26:12 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from bc3910@yahoo.com) Received: (qmail 34024 invoked by uid 60001); 10 Apr 2006 14:26:12 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; h=Message-ID:Received:Date:From:Subject:To:In-Reply-To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=5dT4shXQH07zO29OFf48h+nnn49GJ7yqibGfq15w8HHN8Hky+lt/ivKAa/TjacKMK3uj7BEoA+czzH8V2B8F/GgrZv4JertJRReXAmeZ5Zx/D/dCbYe5ZH7oDqBOY69KmUBSpa1PLfslkCSnSA9ONCRDCpGJaLESUKjMpHELLjw= ; Message-ID: <20060410142612.34022.qmail@web30607.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Received: from [136.185.151.143] by web30607.mail.mud.yahoo.com via HTTP; Mon, 10 Apr 2006 07:26:12 PDT Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2006 07:26:12 -0700 (PDT) From: Bryan Curl To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <44irph1qnm.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Subject: Re: Drive errors on boot X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2006 14:26:29 -0000 --- Lowell Gilbert wrote: > Bryan Curl writes: > > > My apologies if this is a repost. It seems either > I > > had a gmail problem or list never posted the > question. > > I have subscribed with another address to monitor > > problem. > > > > Anyway, here is my question again. > > > > I get the following errors from dmesg on one of my > ide > > drives on boot. > > Other similar drives dont error and are setup the > same > > in bios (except cylinder & block config of course) > > System and this drive seem to work fine otherwise. > I > > re-fdisk this one but it still does this error. > > > > FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE-p6 #0: Tue Apr 4 09:43:53 MDT > > 2006 > > > > ad1: 1916MB at > ata0-slave > > WDMA2 > > ad1: FAILURE - READ_DMA status=51 > > error=10 LBA=3924359 > > ad1: FAILURE - READ_DMA status=51 > > error=10 LBA=3924343 > > ad1: FAILURE - READ_DMA status=51 > > error=10 LBA=3924356 > > ad1: FAILURE - READ_DMA status=51 > > error=10 LBA=3924359 > > This is probably a hardware problem. My first guess > would be > cabling. Try swapping the cable. And make sure > there is a master on > the bus if this one is probing as a slave. This is the primary slave drive. Primary master is the boot drive where OS lives. The master is cabled on the end connector and the slave is connected to the middle connector on the cable. The supplied documentation on the drive jumpers is vague at best. It only makes mention of one jumper (master or slave positions) There are 3 other jumpers on the drive that are not mentioned. Looks to me like DMA feature isn't working but I dont know if this is activated by a jumper or by firmware somehow. > > > I dont know what causes these errors either. > > > > dc0: failed to force tx and rx to idle state > > dc0: failed to force tx and rx to idle state > > > The driver tried to force the transmitter and > receiver to be "idle" > temporarily, and failed. There are a number of > different cases where > the driver tries to do this, so it's hard to guess > exactly what's > happening this time. Some of the relevant variables > are: whether this > happens at boot time, whether it happens after an > underrun or overrun, > and which real controller chip you have. > I have seen this error on every FreeBSD installation I have ever had. To my knowledge, it never seemed to bother anything. I just hate watching errors scroll by. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com