Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2008 09:51:57 GMT From: Bill Tillman <btillman99@yahoo.com> To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Subject: i386/122745: 8.0-CURRENT - Messages about hard drives Message-ID: <200804140951.m3E9pv9C016652@www.freebsd.org> Resent-Message-ID: <200804141000.m3EA0AHl066622@freefall.freebsd.org>
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>Number: 122745 >Category: i386 >Synopsis: 8.0-CURRENT - Messages about hard drives >Confidential: no >Severity: non-critical >Priority: low >Responsible: freebsd-i386 >State: open >Quarter: >Keywords: >Date-Required: >Class: update >Submitter-Id: current-users >Arrival-Date: Mon Apr 14 10:00:09 UTC 2008 >Closed-Date: >Last-Modified: >Originator: Bill Tillman >Release: 8.0-CURRENT >Organization: n/a >Environment: FreeBSD FreeBSD1.flgmsi.com 8.0-CURRENT-200803 FreeBSD 8.0-CURRENT-200803 #0: Wed Mar 12 04:44:42 UTC 2008 root@almeida.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386 >Description: Don't want to make a big deal out of this but I am running 8.0-CURRENT. The console tty0 screen has been filling up with these kinds of messages since I updated to 6.x. It happened again in 7.0-STABLE and is still apparent in 8.0-CURRENT. I cannot say that this is not defective hardware. This is an old P166 machine that has literally been running 24/7 since 1997 and 2.2.5-RELEASE. It's very stable and reliable albeit slow. The motherboard want recognize big hard drives so I installed an IDE controller which worked with FreeBSD right out of the box for several years now. The controller card is a I/O Flex PCI Ultra DMA/100 Dual Channel IDE Controller Card, model #IOFLEX-571A. Here is a sample of the messages that have been printing on main terminal. Notice this block happened at 3:02 AM, about the same time that the cron jobs kick off to do the log reporting. Apr 14 03:02:02 FreeBSD1 kernel: ad4: WARNING - SETFEATURES SET TRANSFER MODE taskqueue timeout - completing request directly Apr 14 03:03:43 FreeBSD1 kernel: ad4: WARNING - SETFEATURES SET TRANSFER MODE taskqueue timeout - completing request directly Apr 14 03:03:43 FreeBSD1 kernel: ad4: WARNING - SETFEATURES ENABLE RCACHE taskqueue timeout - completing request directly Apr 14 03:03:43 FreeBSD1 kernel: swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer: bufobj: 0, blkno: 9209, size: 28672 Apr 14 03:03:43 FreeBSD1 kernel: swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer: bufobj: 0, blkno: 12206, size: 32768 Apr 14 03:03:43 FreeBSD1 kernel: ad4: WARNING - SETFEATURES ENABLE WCACHE taskqueue timeout - completing request directly Apr 14 03:03:43 FreeBSD1 kernel: ad4: WARNING - SET_MULTI taskqueue timeout - completing request directly Apr 14 03:03:43 FreeBSD1 kernel: ad4: TIMEOUT - READ_DMA retrying (1 retry left) LBA=1122311 Apr 14 03:03:43 FreeBSD1 kernel: ad7: TIMEOUT - READ_DMA retrying (1 retry left) LBA=133605279 Apr 14 03:03:43 FreeBSD1 kernel: ad4: WARNING - SETFEATURES SET TRANSFER MODE taskqueue timeout - completing request directly Apr 14 03:03:43 FreeBSD1 kernel: ad4: WARNING - SETFEATURES SET TRANSFER MODE taskqueue timeout - completing request directly Apr 14 03:03:43 FreeBSD1 kernel: ad4: WARNING - SETFEATURES ENABLE RCACHE taskqueue timeout - completing request directly Apr 14 03:03:44 FreeBSD1 kernel: swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer: bufobj: 0, blkno: 9042, size: 28672 Apr 14 03:03:44 FreeBSD1 kernel: swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer: bufobj: 0, blkno: 12214, size: 16384 Apr 14 03:03:44 FreeBSD1 kernel: ad4: WARNING - SETFEATURES ENABLE WCACHE taskqueue timeout - completing request directly Apr 14 03:03:44 FreeBSD1 kernel: ad4: WARNING - SET_MULTI taskqueue timeout - completing request directly Apr 14 03:03:44 FreeBSD1 kernel: ad4: TIMEOUT - READ_MUL retrying (1 retry left) LBA=4287967 Apr 14 03:03:44 FreeBSD1 kernel: ad6: WARNING - SETFEATURES SET TRANSFER MODE taskqueue timeout - completing request directly Apr 14 03:03:44 FreeBSD1 kernel: ad6: WARNING - SETFEATURES SET TRANSFER MODE taskqueue timeout - completing request directly Apr 14 03:03:44 FreeBSD1 kernel: ad6: WARNING - SETFEATURES ENABLE RCACHE taskqueue timeout - completing request directly Apr 14 03:03:44 FreeBSD1 kernel: swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer: bufobj: 0, blkno: 9042, size: 28672 Apr 14 03:03:44 FreeBSD1 kernel: swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer: bufobj: 0, blkno: 12214, size: 16384 Apr 14 03:03:44 FreeBSD1 kernel: ad6: WARNING - SETFEATURES ENABLE WCACHE taskqueue timeout - completing request directly Apr 14 03:03:44 FreeBSD1 kernel: ad6: WARNING - SET_MULTI taskqueue timeout - completing request directly Apr 14 03:03:44 FreeBSD1 kernel: ad7: WARNING - SETFEATURES SET TRANSFER MODE taskqueue timeout - completing request directly Apr 14 03:03:44 FreeBSD1 kernel: ad7: WARNING - SETFEATURES SET TRANSFER MODE taskqueue timeout - completing request directly Apr 14 03:03:44 FreeBSD1 kernel: ad7: WARNING - SETFEATURES ENABLE RCACHE taskqueue timeout - completing request directly Apr 14 03:03:44 FreeBSD1 kernel: swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer: bufobj: 0, blkno: 9042, size: 28672 Apr 14 03:03:44 FreeBSD1 kernel: swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer: bufobj: 0, blkno: 12214, size: 16384 Apr 14 03:03:44 FreeBSD1 kernel: ad7: WARNING - SETFEATURES ENABLE WCACHE taskqueue timeout - completing request directly Apr 14 03:03:44 FreeBSD1 kernel: ad7: WARNING - SET_MULTI taskqueue timeout - completing request directly Apr 14 03:03:44 FreeBSD1 kernel: ad6: TIMEOUT - WRITE_DMA retrying (1 retry left) LBA=34624703 Apr 14 03:03:44 FreeBSD1 kernel: ad4: WARNING - SETFEATURES SET TRANSFER MODE taskqueue timeout - completing request directly Apr 14 03:03:44 FreeBSD1 kernel: ad4: WARNING - SETFEATURES SET TRANSFER MODE taskqueue timeout - completing request directly Apr 14 03:03:44 FreeBSD1 kernel: ad4: WARNING - SETFEATURES ENABLE RCACHE taskqueue timeout - completing request directly Apr 14 03:03:44 FreeBSD1 kernel: swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer: bufobj: 0, blkno: 9042, size: 28672 Apr 14 03:03:44 FreeBSD1 kernel: swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer: bufobj: 0, blkno: 12214, size: 16384 Apr 14 03:03:44 FreeBSD1 kernel: ad4: WARNING - SETFEATURES ENABLE WCACHE taskqueue timeout - completing request directly >How-To-Repeat: The event seems to occur whenever I do large writes to the hard drives. The drives are less than a year old and were purchased brand new. The controller card is about 5 years old now. >Fix: Just reporting to hopefully help with the development of 8.0 >Release-Note: >Audit-Trail: >Unformatted:
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