From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Nov 13 08:39:00 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D020A16A4CE; Sat, 13 Nov 2004 08:39:00 +0000 (GMT) Received: from hotmail.com (bay2-dav4.bay2.hotmail.com [65.54.246.108]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B41CE43D31; Sat, 13 Nov 2004 08:39:00 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from tssajo@hotmail.com) Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Sat, 13 Nov 2004 00:39:00 -0800 Received: from 24.24.201.219 by BAY2-DAV4.phx.gbl with DAV; Sat, 13 Nov 2004 08:38:38 +0000 X-Originating-IP: [24.24.201.219] X-Originating-Email: [tssajo@hotmail.com] X-Sender: tssajo@hotmail.com From: "Zoltan Frombach" To: , "Garance A Drosihn" , "Robert Watson" , =?iso-8859-1?Q?S=F8ren_Schmidt?= References: Date: Sat, 13 Nov 2004 00:38:41 -0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=response Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.2180 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2180 Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 13 Nov 2004 08:39:00.0420 (UTC) FILETIME=[3907C040:01C4C95C] Subject: Re: 5.3-RELEASE: WARNING - WRITE_DMA interrupt timout X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 13 Nov 2004 08:39:00 -0000 This is still an issue for me. Please read this post of mine: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2004-November/009420.html Can anyone help? I would gladely install test patches to track this problem down. My system is 5.3-R. And the WRITE_DMA warning happens at least twice a day, it is so predictable. With thanks, Zoltan Subject: Re: 5.3-RELEASE: WARNING - WRITE_DMA interrupt timout - what does it mean? > 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