Date: Fri, 1 Oct 2004 03:28:38 +0200 From: Marius Strobl <marius@alchemy.franken.de> To: Tristan <tris@infoeng.flinders.edu.au> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ad0: TIMEOUT - WRITE_DMA retrying (2 retries left) LBA=xxx Message-ID: <20041001032838.A88228@newtrinity.zeist.de> In-Reply-To: <20041001005227.GA28811@electra.cse.Buffalo.EDU>; from kensmith@cse.Buffalo.EDU on Thu, Sep 30, 2004 at 08:52:27PM -0400 References: <20041001093515.5cd51b2d@rhino> <20041001005227.GA28811@electra.cse.Buffalo.EDU>
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On Thu, Sep 30, 2004 at 08:52:27PM -0400, Ken Smith wrote: > On Fri, Oct 01, 2004 at 09:35:15AM +0930, Tristan wrote: > > > FreeBSD 6.0-CURRENT with GENERIC kernel built 27th Sep. > > On a SunBlade 100 I see these messages regularly when > > dma is enabled. The messages go away when I either use > > atacontrol to set the mode to PIO4 or set hw.ata.ata_dma to 0 > > I do get data corruption on the disk if left in DMA mode. > > Just FYI my primary test machine is a SunBlade 100, it seems to > be doing OK with a kernel built from this morning's source. I've > been doing most of my builds from an NFS server though, I'll do > a check with a full buildworld which will use the local drive more. > > > ad0: 14594MB <ST315310A/3.28> [29651/16/63] at ata2-master UDMA66 > > acd0: CDRW <LTN486S/YSU1> at ata2-slave PIO4 > > ata3-master: DMA limited to UDMA33, non-ATA66 cable or device > > ad1: 39266MB <IBM-DTLA-305040/TW4OA60A> [79780/16/63] at ata3-master UDMA33 > > Mounted root from ufs:/dev/ad0a. > > Is the data corruption spread across both drives, or just ad1? That > message about the cable or device being limited could be a clue. > Did you replace the cable of the primary channel? AFAIK on Blade 100 there's a hardware bug that causes data corruption when using UDMA66 and Sun ships them with a 40-pin cable as sort of a work-around. So these non-ATA66 cable messages should be rather normal on Blade 100. Not all revisions might be affected though.
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