Date: Mon, 27 Dec 2004 20:29:49 -0600 From: Joe Koberg <joe@osoft.us> To: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Zsolt_K=FAti?= <kutizs@axelero.hu> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: TIMEOUT - WRITE_DMA - A possible FIX! turn off ACPI Message-ID: <41D0C51D.8020800@osoft.us> In-Reply-To: <20041209183911.068c9a84.kutizs@axelero.hu> References: <20041209183911.068c9a84.kutizs@axelero.hu>
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Zsolt Kúti wrote:
>My system produces these messages that I already know well from this
>list (as well ;):
>ad4: TIMEOUT - WRITE_DMA retrying (2 retries left) LBA=213249674
>
>
Like many people I was confronted with "TIMEOUT - READ_DMA"
and "TIMEOUT - WRITE_DMA" errors on my drives. I was frustrated.
But I found a workaround: Turning off ACPI.
I just received a Highpoint RocketRaid 1640 controller,
2 Maxtor 300GB drives, and a Supermicro 5-drive SATA cage.
I am testing this configuration for a storage server.
I am using an old motherboard, DTK brand, Slot 1. 300A Celeron.
Under a fresh install of 5.3-RELEASE I am unable to read or write
both drives heavily at the same time. One drive alone seems to work
OK. When I run dd blasting both drives with seqential IO, I get
TIMEOUT - WRITE(READ)_DMA. Repeatably, within 15 seconds.
However I got a good test before I installed 5.3-R, the box was running
with 5.3-BETA. Only difference was I booted without ACPI.
So I rebooted the freshly installed 5.3-R without ACPI, and It works!
I can read at 50MB/s per drive concurrently (hitting PCI bus speed
limit?), and write at 30MB/s per drive concurrently. No errors so
far, and its been dd'ing for a half hour.
I hope this report helps someone!
Joe Koberg
joe at osoft dot us
dmesg:
FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE #0: Fri Nov 5 04:19:18 UTC 2004
root@harlow.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC
Timecounter "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz quality 0
CPU: Pentium II/Pentium II Xeon/Celeron (307.84-MHz 686-class CPU)
Origin = "GenuineIntel" Id = 0x660 Stepping = 0
Features=0x183f9ff<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,MMX,FXSR>
real memory = 402587648 (383 MB)
avail memory = 384270336 (366 MB)
npx0: [FAST]
npx0: <math processor> on motherboard
npx0: INT 16 interface
pcib0: <Intel 82443LX (440 LX) host to PCI bridge> pcibus 0 on motherboard
pir0: <PCI Interrupt Routing Table: 7 Entries> on motherboard
pci0: <PCI bus> on pcib0
agp0: <Intel 82443LX (440 LX) host to PCI bridge> mem
0xe0000000-0xe3ffffff at device 0.0 on pci0
pcib1: <PCI-PCI bridge> at device 1.0 on pci0
pci1: <PCI bus> on pcib1
pci1: <display, VGA> at device 0.0 (no driver attached)
isab0: <PCI-ISA bridge> at device 7.0 on pci0
isa0: <ISA bus> on isab0
atapci0: <Intel PIIX4 UDMA33 controller> port
0xf000-0xf00f,0x376,0x170-0x177,0x3f6,0x1f0-0x1f7 at device 7.1 on pci0
ata0: channel #0 on atapci0
ata1: channel #1 on atapci0
uhci0: <Intel 82371AB/EB (PIIX4) USB controller> port 0xb000-0xb01f irq
10 at device 7.2 on pci0
uhci0: [GIANT-LOCKED]
usb0: <Intel 82371AB/EB (PIIX4) USB controller> on uhci0
usb0: USB revision 1.0
uhub0: Intel UHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1
uhub0: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered
ums0: Microsoft Microsoft 5-Button Mouse with IntelliEye(TM), rev
1.10/3.00, addr 2, iclass 3/1
ums0: 5 buttons and Z dir.
pci0: <bridge, PCI-unknown> at device 7.3 (no driver attached)
atapci1: <HighPoint HPT374 (channel 0+1) UDMA133 controller> port
0xc400-0xc4ff,0xc000-0xc003,0xbc00-0xbc07,0xb800-0xb803,0xb400-0xb407
irq 11 at device 17.0 on pci0
ata2: channel #0 on atapci1
ata3: channel #1 on atapci1
atapci2: <HighPoint HPT374 (channel 2+3) UDMA133 controller> port
0xd800-0xd8ff,0xd400-0xd403,0xd000-0xd007,0xcc00-0xcc03,0xc800-0xc807
irq 11 at device 17.1 on pci0
ata4: channel #0 on atapci2
ata5: channel #1 on atapci2
dc0: <ADMtek AN985 10/100BaseTX> port 0xdc00-0xdcff mem
0xec000000-0xec0003ff irq 12 at device 18.0 on pci0
miibus0: <MII bus> on dc0
ukphy0: <Generic IEEE 802.3u media interface> on miibus0
ukphy0: 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto
dc0: Ethernet address: 00:04:5a:56:80:76
dc0: if_start running deferred for Giant
dc0: [GIANT-LOCKED]
pci0: <multimedia, audio> at device 19.0 (no driver attached)
cpu0 on motherboard
orm0: <ISA Option ROMs> at iomem 0xcc000-0xcdfff,0xc0000-0xc8fff on isa0
pmtimer0 on isa0
atkbdc0: <Keyboard controller (i8042)> at port 0x64,0x60 on isa0
atkbd0: <AT Keyboard> irq 1 on atkbdc0
kbd0 at atkbd0
atkbd0: [GIANT-LOCKED]
fdc0: <Enhanced floppy controller> at port 0x3f0-0x3f5 irq 6 drq 2 on isa0
fdc0: [FAST]
fd0: <1440-KB 3.5" drive> on fdc0 drive 0
ppc0: <Parallel port> at port 0x378-0x37f irq 7 on isa0
ppc0: SMC-like chipset (ECP/EPP/PS2/NIBBLE) in COMPATIBLE mode
ppc0: FIFO with 16/16/8 bytes threshold
ppbus0: <Parallel port bus> on ppc0
plip0: <PLIP network interface> on ppbus0
lpt0: <Printer> on ppbus0
lpt0: Interrupt-driven port
ppi0: <Parallel I/O> on ppbus0
sc0: <System console> at flags 0x100 on isa0
sc0: VGA <16 virtual consoles, flags=0x300>
sio0 at port 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 flags 0x10 on isa0
sio0: type 16550A
sio1 at port 0x2f8-0x2ff irq 3 on isa0
sio1: type 16550A
vga0: <Generic ISA VGA> at port 0x3c0-0x3df iomem 0xa0000-0xbffff on isa0
unknown: <PNP0303> can't assign resources (port)
unknown: <PNP0c02> can't assign resources (memory)
unknown: <PNP0a03> can't assign resources (port)
unknown: <PNP0501> can't assign resources (port)
unknown: <PNP0501> can't assign resources (port)
unknown: <PNP0700> can't assign resources (port)
unknown: <PNP0401> can't assign resources (port)
Timecounter "TSC" frequency 307842170 Hz quality 800
Timecounters tick every 10.000 msec
ad0: 43979MB <IBM-DTLA-307045/TX6OA60A> [89355/16/63] at ata0-master UDMA33
ad4: 286188MB <Maxtor 6B300S0/BANC1B10> [581463/16/63] at ata2-master
UDMA133
ad6: 286188MB <Maxtor 6B300S0/BANC1B10> [581463/16/63] at ata3-master
UDMA133
Mounting root from ufs:/dev/ad0s1a
>After these messages the two former cases result in FAILURE and finally
>in panic. Even background fsck cannot run without another panic, only
>single user mode can help. All these prevent using them on my HW.
>However B7, although displays the messages as well, works seemingly
>fine. For the time being this version is sufficent, but I'd like to
>know - if possible at all - what the difference could be between the
>versions and if one can expect to bring the actual 5.3 version's
>state to B7's in this respect?
>
>Further to this, the different versions display the behavior of
>relatively frequently (many time in an hour?) stalling their
>responsivity for some seconds. Most of the times no message can be seen
>on the consol after this. It is also more rare on B7.
>
>I also found that pendrive's sensing by 5.3 RELEASE/STABLE more
>frequently results in panic than B7's. (As a matter of fact I have not
>seen it with B7 for weeks since I installed it.)
>
>I use the following either with GENERIC or custom kernel:
>Abit NF7-S (nVidia chipsets, SiI3112 on board), Athlon 2600+,
>Samsung 120G SATA, LEXAR MEDIA JUMPDRIVE, rev 1.10/0.01
>
>
>Please cc it to me as well, since I'am not on the list for the time
>being.
>Many thanks!
>
>Zsolt
>
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