From owner-freebsd-current Sat Dec 11 10:43:53 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from duke.cs.duke.edu (duke.cs.duke.edu [152.3.140.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 526E014CB1 for ; Sat, 11 Dec 1999 10:43:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gallatin@cs.duke.edu) Received: from grasshopper.cs.duke.edu (grasshopper.cs.duke.edu [152.3.145.30]) by duke.cs.duke.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id NAA19532; Sat, 11 Dec 1999 13:43:44 -0500 (EST) Received: (from gallatin@localhost) by grasshopper.cs.duke.edu (8.9.3/8.9.1) id NAA19757; Sat, 11 Dec 1999 13:43:14 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from gallatin@cs.duke.edu) From: Andrew Gallatin MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Sat, 11 Dec 1999 13:43:13 -0500 (EST) To: Soren Schmidt Cc: joeo@nks.net, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Errors from the ata disk driver In-Reply-To: <199912111730.SAA04573@freebsd.dk> References: <199912111730.SAA04573@freebsd.dk> X-Mailer: VM 6.43 under 20.4 "Emerald" XEmacs Lucid Message-ID: <14418.39524.290684.380673@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Soren Schmidt writes: > It seems joeo@nks.net wrote: > > I've got a striped vinum partition that is occasionally going stale when > > I get spurrious errors from the ata driver. > > > > I can setstate the drives and the volume back up and an fsck of the > > partition doesn't show any obvious corruption. > > > > What do these errors indicate? > > > > ad5: status=51 error=84 > > ad_interrupt: hard error > > vinum0.p0.s3: fatal read I/O error > > ad6: status=51 error=84 > > These are UDMA CRC errors, if you upgrade to the latest current, ata > knows to retry these, only if they persist, something is wrong. > However it could indicate cable problems, ie bad connectors or maybe > too long cables.. > He said the disk was attached to a Promise Ultra/33. Does the backdown to PIO on Promise Ultra controllers work now? I've been watching the commits to the ata driver, and haven't seen anything that makes me think that it would.. but I haven't tried it since last week. Thanks, Drew ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Andrew Gallatin, Sr Systems Programmer http://www.cs.duke.edu/~gallatin Duke University Email: gallatin@cs.duke.edu Department of Computer Science Phone: (919) 660-6590 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message