From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Dec 9 23:18:13 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org 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 DAC2616A41F for ; Fri, 9 Dec 2005 23:18:13 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from cracauer@schlepper.zs64.net) Received: from schlepper.zs64.net (schlepper.zs64.net [212.12.50.230]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D0E0743D53 for ; Fri, 9 Dec 2005 23:18:12 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from cracauer@schlepper.zs64.net) Received: from schlepper.zs64.net (schlepper [212.12.50.230]) by schlepper.zs64.net (8.13.3/8.12.9) with ESMTP id jB9NIBJw093604 for ; Sat, 10 Dec 2005 00:18:11 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from cracauer@schlepper.zs64.net) Received: (from cracauer@localhost) by schlepper.zs64.net (8.13.3/8.12.9/Submit) id jB9NIBtP093603 for freebsd-current@freebsd.org; Fri, 9 Dec 2005 18:18:11 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from cracauer) Date: Fri, 9 Dec 2005 18:18:11 -0500 From: Martin Cracauer To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20051209181811.A93373@cons.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i Subject: "ad0: TIMEOUT - READ_DMA retrying" - does this mean I am fine? 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: Fri, 09 Dec 2005 23:18:14 -0000 This is a question on IDE error recovery. I have a broken drive and while copying the data over to a new drive I have seen: Dec 9 03:09:40 grisu kernel: ad0: TIMEOUT - READ_DMA retrying (1 retry left) LBA=68460463 Dec 9 03:10:10 grisu kernel: ad0: TIMEOUT - READ_DMA retrying (1 retry left) LBA=70278843 Dec 9 03:10:39 grisu kernel: ad0: TIMEOUT - WRITE_DMA retrying (1 retry left) LBA=71672863 Dec 9 03:10:49 grisu kernel: ad0: TIMEOUT - READ_DMA retrying (1 retry left) LBA=72831895 Dec 9 03:11:49 grisu kernel: ad0: TIMEOUT - READ_DMA retrying (1 retry left) LBA=14894591 So, it says "1 retry left" every time and there is no message saying that a hard error occured. Does that mean the files got off the drive OK? This is 6-stable. Intel ICH4 UDMA100 controller (Thinkpad). Martin -- %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Martin Cracauer http://www.cons.org/cracauer/ FreeBSD - where you want to go, today. http://www.freebsd.org/