From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Nov 9 23:10:58 2004 Return-Path: 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 B9EDB16A4CE for ; Tue, 9 Nov 2004 23:10:58 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail.bonivet.net (mail.bonivet.net [81.56.185.133]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8618343D1D for ; Tue, 9 Nov 2004 23:10:57 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from gstewart@bonivet.net) X-ConnectingHost: 192.168.1.254 Received: from dragonfly.bonivet.net (dragonfly.bonivet.net [192.168.1.254]) by mail.bonivet.net (8.13.1/8.13.1) with SMTP id iA9NAtL2014907 for ; Wed, 10 Nov 2004 00:10:55 +0100 Date: Wed, 10 Nov 2004 00:10:55 +0100 From: Godwin Stewart To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Message-Id: <20041110001055.5548c227.gstewart@bonivet.net> In-Reply-To: References: Organization: Nope, none here, it's a mess ;o) X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.99 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-unknown-freebsd5.3) X-MS-SUX: As if we didn't know... X-Curious: You just *HAD* to look at these headers, didn't you! X-Face: #T;eJks=B[`71qrwp`l6BW8xI&hP8S*4Kd%e?8o"rL02ZYf"rWa41l83a)L,*; S).Ukq$U% II{-z#5%i&X8"%{$)ZWmE7WBDF)?wK1^7]u9T;@jqdZo?IT!d-L`!@&vW)F_1 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: 5.3-RELEASE: WARNING - WRITE_DMA interrupt timout - what does it mean? X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 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, 09 Nov 2004 23:10:58 -0000 On Tue, 9 Nov 2004 15:01:41 -0800, "Zoltan Frombach" wrote: > I just upgraded to 5.3-RELEASE a few days ago. This morning this line got > into my system log file: > Nov 9 06:14:03 www kernel: ad0: WARNING - WRITE_DMA interrupt was seen > but timeout fired LBA=2491143 > > I've never seen this message before. Can someone please explain what it > means? With Thanks, Looks like you may have a hard disk about to die. I'd start doing backups if I were you and then consider replacing the HD. -- BOFH excuse #446: Mailer-daemon is busy burning your message in hell