From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Mar 26 22:19:39 2005 Return-Path: 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 D331816A4CE for ; Sat, 26 Mar 2005 22:19:39 +0000 (GMT) Received: from tao.thought.org (dsl231-043-140.sea1.dsl.speakeasy.net [216.231.43.140]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 27A7843D2F for ; Sat, 26 Mar 2005 22:19:39 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kline@tao.thought.org) Received: from tao.thought.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by tao.thought.org (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id j2QMJewn012100; Sat, 26 Mar 2005 14:19:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kline@tao.thought.org) Received: (from kline@localhost) by tao.thought.org (8.13.1/8.13.1/Submit) id j2QMJd6F012099; Sat, 26 Mar 2005 14:19:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kline) Date: Sat, 26 Mar 2005 14:19:39 -0800 From: Gary Kline To: Ed Schouten Message-ID: <20050326221939.GA11995@thought.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i X-Organization: Thought Unlimited. Public service Unix since 1986. X-Of_Interest: Observing 18 years of service to the Unix community cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: FreeBSD 5.4-PRERELEASE: panic in ffs_valloc X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 26 Mar 2005 22:19:40 -0000 On Sat, Mar 26, 2005 at 10:16:57PM +0000, Gary Kline wrote: On Sat, Mar 26, 2005 at 09:47:47PM +0100, Ed Schouten wrote: > * Kris Kennaway wrote: > > Unfortunately that's a relatively common bug that no-one's been able to > > track down yet. It is sometimes associated to failing drives, but not > > always. > > I reinstalled my machine yesterday and it Just Works (tm), except for this > warning in my dmesg: > > | ad0: WARNING - READ_DMA UDMA ICRC error (retrying request) LBA=49904459 > > where LBA is always the same number. Does that mean my disk has a bad block? > > Yours, > -- > Ed Schouten This is a FWIW, but the same thing is happening with DMA "WRITES" on with my 5.3 CD set from Nov, '04 on a 160G Maxtor drive that I bought last July. 4.10 was fine, and my 5.2 to 5.3 upgrades went smoothly too. I used the CD set because I was configuring a dual-boot W2K/FBSD setup. gary -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org www.thought.org Public service Unix