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Date:      Tue, 09 Nov 2004 21:43:47 -0500
From:      Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net>
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:  <6.1.2.0.0.20041109213911.0971c9f8@64.7.153.2>
In-Reply-To: <BAY2-DAV13Gz1iD0CWl00009b23@hotmail.com>
References:  <BAY2-DAV13Gz1iD0CWl00009b23@hotmail.com>

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At 06:01 PM 09/11/2004, Zoltan Frombach wrote:
>I just upgraded to 5.3-RELEASE a few days ago. This morning this line got 
>into my system log file:
>Nov  9 06:14:03 www kernel: ad0: WARNING - WRITE_DMA interrupt was seen 
>but timeout fired LBA=2491143
>
>I've never seen this message before. Can someone please explain what it 
>means? With Thanks,


http://archive.pilgerer.org/mharc/cgi-bin/mesg.cgi?a=freebsd-current&i=40A21BF1.4080502%40DeepCore.dk



A useful set of utils if your HD and BIOS support it (most do these days) 
is in
/usr/ports/sysutils/smartmontools/

It can tell you all sorts of info about your HD and might shed some light 
on the problems you are having.

         ---Mike 



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