From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Sep 12 06:19:13 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5C9B616A41F for ; Mon, 12 Sep 2005 06:19:13 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from corwin@pleiades.aeternal.net) Received: from amber.aeternal.net (amber.in.markiza.sk [62.168.76.21]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C47EB43D48 for ; Mon, 12 Sep 2005 06:19:12 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from corwin@pleiades.aeternal.net) Received: from localhost (localhost.aeternal.net [127.0.0.1]) by amber.aeternal.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id DA7B0B884 for ; Mon, 12 Sep 2005 08:19:43 +0200 (CEST) Received: from amber.aeternal.net ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (amber.aeternal.net [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 21510-09 for ; Mon, 12 Sep 2005 08:19:42 +0200 (CEST) Received: from pleiades.aeternal.net (pleiades.aeternal.net [192.168.0.44]) by amber.aeternal.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id AEE86B88A for ; Mon, 12 Sep 2005 08:19:42 +0200 (CEST) Received: by pleiades.aeternal.net (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 30A591141E; Mon, 12 Sep 2005 08:19:18 +0200 (CEST) Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2005 08:19:18 +0200 From: martin hudec To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20050912061917.GP69713@pleiades.aeternal.net> References: <1275346059.20050911223347@rulez.sk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="V2tfspbppmK1TQo2" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1275346059.20050911223347@rulez.sk> X-Copyright: (C) 2005 Martin Hudec X-Operating-System: FreeBSD pleiades.aeternal.net 7.0-CURRENT i386 X-PGP-Key: http://www.aeternal.net/corwin_aeternal.asc User-Agent: mutt-ng/devel-r445 (FreeBSD) X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at aeternal.net Subject: Re: Stress testing and TIMEOUT - WRITE_DMA X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: martin hudec List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2005 06:19:13 -0000 --V2tfspbppmK1TQo2 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hello, On Sun, Sep 11, 2005 at 10:33:47PM +0200 or thereabouts, Daniel Gerzo wrote: > > Sep 6 11:35:27 mybox kernel: ad0: TIMEOUT - WRITE_DMA retrying (2 retr= ies left) LBA=3D8348191 > > ... > > Sep 6 18:59:09 mybox kernel: ad0: TIMEOUT - WRITE_DMA retrying (2 retr= ies left) LBA=3D8348383 > > Sep 6 19:04:58 mybox kernel: ad0: TIMEOUT - READ_DMA retrying (2 retri= es left) LBA=3D61749183 >=20 > > The READ_DMA timeouts are happening very infrequently, but it's worth > > mentioning that I'm seeing them now in addition. >=20 > > This is quite disturbing, particularly when the machine in question is > > *in*production.* >=20 > I thing you should really quickly look for backuping your data. When > I was seeing this kind of messages last time, my disk died after 3 > days from time they started showing up in my log files. I wasn't able > to write any data to the disk (system just sudennly paniced, when > I tried to mount it rw, but I was able to mount it ro and copy most of > the data) Note, that I wasn't able to copy about 10GB out of 30GB. So > don't ignore them and have a good luck. Hmmm, before trashing that disk, you could surely consider running smartmontools to see what they have to say about health condition of your disk :).. go for sysutils/smartmontools. After that can one make assumptions whether it is faulty hardware or ata patches :). --=20 martin hudec * 421 907 303 393 * corwin@aeternal.net * http://www.aeternal.net "Nothing travels faster than the speed of light with the possible=20 exception of bad news, which obeys its own special laws." Douglas Adams, "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" --V2tfspbppmK1TQo2 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFDJR3lZYEZIv+rgggRApdCAJ9H0+bT4taIy7PzJMNRP6fud/F1zwCdGdjP eBKtISQkl/W55XGfpyDpAYs= =jj7t -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --V2tfspbppmK1TQo2--