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Date:      Thu, 18 May 2000 22:29:02 +1000 (EST)
From:      Andrew MacIntyre <andymac@bullseye.apana.org.au>
To:        andrew@ugh.net.au
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Yet more HD trouble (ad0: WRITE command timeout - resetting)
Message-ID:  <Pine.OS2.3.95.1000518222511.704A-100000@CENTRAL>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0005172239420.26145-100000@starbug.ugh.net.au>

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On Wed, 17 May 2000 andrew@ugh.net.au wrote:

> It seems wherever I go disks fail before me...anyway I am getting the
> following errors from the kernel:
> 
> ad0: WRITE command timeout - resetting
> ata0: resetting devices .. done
> dc0: TX underrun -- increasing TX threshold
> ad0: WRITE command timeout - resetting
> ata0: resetting devices .. done
> ad0: WRITE command timeout - resetting
> ata0: resetting devices .. done
> ad0: WRITE command timeout - resetting
> ata0: resetting devices .. done
> 
> I dont think the TX underrun error is anything to worry about (although
> I'm not exactly sure what it means) but how about the ata0 messages?
> 
> I'm running 4.0-STABLE as of today. From dmesg:
> 
> <snip>
> 
> CPU: Pentium Pro (179.63-MHz 686-class CPU)
>   Origin = "GenuineIntel"  Id = 0x619  Stepping = 9
> Features=0xf9ff<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV>
> real memory  = 33554432 (32768K bytes)
> 
> <snip>
> 
> Correcting Natoma config for non-SMP
> Correcting Natoma config for non-SMP
> dc0: <Intel 21143 10/100BaseTX> port 0xec00-0xec7f mem
> 0xfdffbc00-0xfdffbc7f irq
>  9 at device 3.0 on pci0
> dc0: Ethernet address: 00:00:f8:77:4c:d3
> miibus0: <MII bus> on dc0
> nsphy0: <DP83840 10/100 media interface> on miibus0
> nsphy0:  10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto
> isab0: <Intel 82371SB PCI to ISA bridge> at device 7.0 on pci0
> isa0: <ISA bus> on isab0
> atapci0: <Intel PIIX3 ATA controller> port 0xecf0-0xecff at device 7.1 on
> pci0
> ata0: at 0x1f0 irq 14 on atapci0
> ata1: at 0x170 irq 15 on atapci0
> 
> <snip>
> 
> ad0: 3079MB <QUANTUM FIREBALL ST3.2A> [6256/16/63] at ata0-master using
> WDMA2
> acd0: CDROM <TOSHIBA CD-ROM XM-6002B> at ata1-master using PIO3

Have you tried derating ad0 to PIO4?  ISTR some patchiness of reliability
with PIIX3 controllers and DMA, though -STABLE has had fixes applied to
the ata driver.

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