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Date:      Fri, 13 Oct 2000 20:48:44 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Andy <deimos@lewman.com>
To:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   ata timeouts in 4.1-stable?
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0010132033480.460-100000@lowrider.lewman.org>

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	I'm using fbsd 4.1-stable, last cvsup and make world was
2000-09-24.  Everything looked fine until I added another ide drive, as
secondary slave, to the primary master.  I did check the archives first,
and what I found was that people have reported this problem with ATA-66
controllers, not ATA-33.  I now get log warnings such as:

Oct 13 19:29:30 lowrider /kernel: ad2: WRITE command timeout - resetting
Oct 13 19:29:30 lowrider /kernel: ata1: resetting devices .. done
Oct 13 19:29:40 lowrider /kernel: ad2: WRITE command timeout - resetting
Oct 13 19:29:50 lowrider /kernel: ata1: resetting devices .. done
Oct 13 19:30:11 lowrider /kernel: ad2: WRITE command timeout - resetting
Oct 13 19:30:11 lowrider /kernel: ata1: resetting devices .. done
Oct 13 19:30:11 lowrider /kernel: ad2: WRITE command timeout - resetting
Oct 13 19:30:11 lowrider /kernel: ata1: resetting devices .. done
Oct 13 19:30:11 lowrider /kernel: ad2: WRITE command timeout - resetting
Oct 13 19:30:11 lowrider /kernel: ata1-master: WARNING: WAIT_READY 
active=ATA_ACTIVE_ATA
Oct 13 19:30:11 lowrider /kernel: ad2: trying fallback to PIO mode
Oct 13 19:30:11 lowrider /kernel: ata1: resetting devices .. done

My controller is:

Oct 11 22:51:53 lowrider /kernel: atapci0: <Intel PIIX4 ATA33 controller>
port 0xf000-0xf00f at device 7.1 on pci0
Oct 11 22:51:53 lowrider /kernel: ata0: at 0x1f0 irq 14 on atapci0
Oct 11 22:51:53 lowrider /kernel: ata1: at 0x170 irq 15 on atapci0

and my disks are:

Oct 11 22:51:54 lowrider /kernel: ad0: 5006MB <FUJITSU MPB3052ATU>
[10850/15/63] at ata0-master using UDMA33
Oct 11 22:51:54 lowrider /kernel: ad2: 4134MB <QUANTUM BIGFOOT_CY4320A>
[8960/15/63] at ata1-master using WDMA2
Oct 11 22:51:54 lowrider /kernel: acd0: CDROM <FX240S> at ata0-slave using
PIO3


The errors above occur during the dump of an fs, the creation of a large
tarball, or nightly run jobs that involve ad2.  The actual disk in ad2
came out of a 3.5-stable system that ran without these errors.  The disk
appears to be fine, as I've put it back into the old system, and dumped
the /usr fs to a tarball on it.  

These errors don't appear to be affecting the end result, as the tarballs,
and dump files are still valid, but I'm wondering if these are cause for
concern.  Or if I should add this to a PR?


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