From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jul 24 18:37:19 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2526D106564A for ; Tue, 24 Jul 2012 18:37:19 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-questions@m.gmane.org) Received: from plane.gmane.org (plane.gmane.org [80.91.229.3]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D2C588FC0C for ; Tue, 24 Jul 2012 18:37:18 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Stjyv-0005L7-EZ for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 24 Jul 2012 20:37:17 +0200 Received: from np-19-75.prenet.pl ([np-19-75.prenet.pl]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 24 Jul 2012 20:37:17 +0200 Received: from jb.1234abcd by np-19-75.prenet.pl with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 24 Jul 2012 20:37:17 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: jb Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2012 18:37:05 +0000 (UTC) Lines: 45 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: sea.gmane.org User-Agent: Loom/3.14 (http://gmane.org/) X-Loom-IP: 79.139.19.75 (Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD i386; rv:13.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/13.0.1) Subject: Re: Disk Errors X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2012 18:37:19 -0000 dweimer dweimer.net> writes: > ... > ad4: TIMEOUT - WRITE_DMA48 retrying (1 retry left) LBA=817755328 > ad4: WARNING - WRITE_DMA48 UDMA ICRC error (retrying request) > LBA=837397120 > ... There is a story about it: http://linux-bsd-sharing.blogspot.com/2009/03/howto-fix-sata-dma-timeout-issues-on.html But do not rush, read the comments as well: ... "Tony Schwartz said... Thing is though, I have a secondary issue. This second issue is probably what caused the first issue (DMA TIMEOUTS) to begin with. My disks keep spinning down then up, every 20 seconds or so. I have no idea why this is happening, but it's not just one disk. I think that it was timing out because he disk goes to spin up and that takes too long. Any ideas here? I've used atacontrol and it's not configured to spindown. Thanks." ... " Benjamin said... LoL, found the solution and feeling a little embarrassed by it. Good thing I got a GURU in the forums to look at it. It was just the power supply and my disk was spinning down cos the power wasn't sufficient to run 6 HDs and 9 fans for cooling ha ha ha." ... " CyberRax said... Just for information: while this hasn't been fixed as elegantly as in the patch FreeBSD does incorporate since 8-STABLE r199158 a solution for the problem: ATA_REQUEST_TIMEOUT kernel option that be be set higher than the default 5. What is needed is adding "options ATA_REQUEST_TIMEOUT=X" (where X is timeout in seconds) into the kernel configuration file. Changing the timeout will need rebuilding and installing the kernel, but it's still better than nothing." jb