From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Nov 10 02:37:02 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 93C3F16A4CE for ; Wed, 10 Nov 2004 02:37:02 +0000 (GMT) Received: from avscan2.sentex.ca (avscan2.sentex.ca [199.212.134.19]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 211C443D1F for ; Wed, 10 Nov 2004 02:37:02 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) Received: from localhost (localhost.sentex.ca [127.0.0.1]) by avscan2.sentex.ca (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id iAA2b3i3034736; Tue, 9 Nov 2004 21:37:03 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) Received: from avscan2.sentex.ca ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (avscan2.sentex.ca [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 34445-04; Tue, 9 Nov 2004 21:37:02 -0500 (EST) Received: from lava.sentex.ca (pyroxene.sentex.ca [199.212.134.18]) by avscan2.sentex.ca (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id iAA2b2hL034699; Tue, 9 Nov 2004 21:37:02 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) Received: from simian.sentex.net (simeon.sentex.ca [192.168.43.27]) by lava.sentex.ca (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id iAA2asXk030968; Tue, 9 Nov 2004 21:36:54 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) Message-Id: <6.1.2.0.0.20041109213911.0971c9f8@64.7.153.2> X-Sender: mdtpop@64.7.153.2 (Unverified) X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 6.1.2.0 Date: Tue, 09 Nov 2004 21:43:47 -0500 To: "Zoltan Frombach" , From: Mike Tancsa In-Reply-To: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at avscan2b Subject: Re: 5.3-RELEASE: WARNING - WRITE_DMA interrupt timout - what does it mean? 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: Wed, 10 Nov 2004 02:37:02 -0000 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