Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2004 14:04:02 -0500 From: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> To: "Zoltan Frombach" <tssajo@hotmail.com>, <freebsd-current@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: 5.3-RELEASE: WARNING - WRITE_DMA interrupt timout - what does it mean? Message-ID: <p06020404bdb94f75aa0b@[128.113.24.47]> In-Reply-To: <BAY2-DAV8jQHtMFauky0000f07f@hotmail.com> References: <BAY2-DAV8jQHtMFauky0000f07f@hotmail.com>
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At 7:58 PM -0800 11/9/04, Zoltan Frombach wrote: >Well, since I posted my original message, I investigated >this a bit further. And according to this post >http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2004-May/027235.html >this is not necessarily an indication of a failing hard >drive... (Quote: "there is no harm done, but the taskqueue >was slow to respond...") And I can also tell you that this >very same hard drive *never* produced this error message in >the past 6 months while running FreeBSD 5.2-CURRENT (from >May 9, 2004). Fwiw, I am also seeing this warning/error message on a brand new machine with a brand new SATA hard disk in it. I have seen the message on multiple installs into different partitions on the same hard drive. I turned off some sysctl (hw.ata.ata_dma, *I think*) to see if that would avoid the problem, but it did not seem to. I usually do not notice any problem at the same time as the message, but I have seen a few buildworlds which just happened to abort at the same second this warning message appeared in /var/log/message. So, I am not sure the message is benign in all circumstances. I'm a bit busy with a variety of other issues right now, but I should have some time this coming weekend to run any tests or patches that might help to pin this down. -- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@gilead.netel.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or gad@freebsd.org Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute or drosih@rpi.edu
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