From owner-freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jun 9 12:11:56 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1F8C516A474 for ; Fri, 9 Jun 2006 12:11:56 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from anderson@centtech.com) Received: from mh2.centtech.com (moat3.centtech.com [207.200.51.50]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0363F43D90 for ; Fri, 9 Jun 2006 12:11:47 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from anderson@centtech.com) Received: from [10.177.171.220] (neutrino.centtech.com [10.177.171.220]) by mh2.centtech.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id k59CBlAK070841; Fri, 9 Jun 2006 07:11:47 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from anderson@centtech.com) Message-ID: <4489658C.9090609@centtech.com> Date: Fri, 09 Jun 2006 07:11:56 -0500 From: Eric Anderson User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.2 (X11/20060506) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Dave Stephens References: <6845d25a0606082035q527a8f6bx97a82fe0698fbf43@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <6845d25a0606082035q527a8f6bx97a82fe0698fbf43@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.87.1/1523/Fri Jun 9 02:10:10 2006 on mh2.centtech.com X-Virus-Status: Clean Cc: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: SATA Error X-BeenThere: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Filesystems List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 09 Jun 2006 12:11:56 -0000 Dave Stephens wrote: > OS Version: FreeBSD 6.1 > > What appears to be repeated failures keep occurring with the SATA > drive or controller in my server. The error is a series of 3 > repeated messages where the only difference appears to be the offset > and the LBA. All of the hardware in this server is brand new and is > not believed to be in faulty. If anyone could tell me what is going > on with this, or if it is a known issue point me at how I might patch > something or otherwise fix it. The server does not go down after the > error, but the error is disconcerting none the less and leaves me > worrying about hard drive data integrity. > > Sample Error Message...... > -------------------------------------------------- > > g_vfs_done() : ad8s4e[WRITE(offset=59959787520, length=131072)]error=5 > ad8: TIMEOUT - WRITE_DMA48 retrying (1 retry left) LBA=xxxxxxxxxxx > ad8: FAILURE - WRITE_DMA48 status=51 error=10 > LBA=xxxxxxxxxxx > > > Here is some related info cut out of dmesg..... > > SATA Drive > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > ad8: 286168MB at ata4-master SATA150 > > SATA Controllers > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > atapci1: port > 0xeff0-0xeff7,0xefe4-0xefe7,0xefa8-0xefaf,0xefe0-0xefe3,0xef > 90-0xef9f irq 17 at device 5.0 on pci0 > ata2: on atapci1 > ata3: on atapci1 > atapci2: port > 0xefa0-0xefa7,0xef8c-0xef8f,0xef80-0xef87,0xef88-0xef8b,0xe > f60-0xef6f mem 0xfebfac00-0xfebfadff irq 17 at device 9.0 on pci0 > ata4: on atapci2 > ata5: on atapci2 > > Note that atapci1 is built onto the motherboard and doesn't seem to be > supported by FreeBSD at this time (no HDDs can be found during install > when they are attached to it.) This doesn't look like a filesystem problem at all - it looks more like either a disk problem, or an ATA issue. My money goes to a drive issue (after all, it *is* ATA :)). Can you try a different drive? Eric -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Eric Anderson Sr. Systems Administrator Centaur Technology Anything that works is better than anything that doesn't. ------------------------------------------------------------------------