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Date:      Tue, 15 Feb 2011 14:14:17 -0800
From:      Charlie Kester <corky1951@comcast.net>
To:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: 8.2-PRERELEASE generating warnings re my hard drive
Message-ID:  <20110215221417.GC2049@comcast.net>
In-Reply-To: <20110214003704.GA2049@comcast.net>
References:  <20110214003704.GA2049@comcast.net>

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On Sun 13 Feb 2011 at 16:37:04 PST Charlie Kester wrote:
>I'm running 8-STABLE, i386 architecture, and yesterday I updated to the
>latest version with cvsup.
>
>After installing the kernel and rebooting, I see the following messages on 
>the console:
>
>ad4: WARNING - SETFEATURES SET TRANSFER MODE requeued due to channel reset  
>ad4: interrupt on idle channel ignored
>ad4: WARNING - SETFEATURES SET TRANSFER MODE requeued due to channel reset
>ad4: interrupt on idle channel ignored
>
>(repeated several times, and then the following:) 
>
>ad4: WARNING - SETFEATURES SET TRANSFER MODE taskqueue timeout - completing 
>request directly ad4: 238475MB <Seagate ST3250410AS 3.AAF> at ata2-master 
>UDMA100 SATA 1.5Gb/s
>
>(shortly afterwards, I see this:)
>
>Trying to mount root from ufs:/dev/ad4s1a
>ad4: WARNING - READ_DMA requeued due to channel reset LBA=33963227
>ata2: FAILURE - already active DMA on this device
>ata2: setting up DMA failed
>g_vfs_done():ad4s1f[READ(offset=12103825408, length=2048)]error = 5
>ad4: WARNING - READ_DMA requeued due to channel reset LBA=705199
>ata2: FAILURE - already active DMA on this device
>ata2: setting up DMA failed
>
>(which then repeats many times with different LBA and offset values.)
>
>Similar messages appear after bootup is completed and I've logged in.
>They seem to appear whenever any process accesses the hard drive.
>
>I reverted back to my previous build of the kernel, dated 3 Feb 2011,
>and these messages no longer appear.
>
>smartctl reports that the drive is running without any errors or
>incipient failures.
>
>So my question is, what's going on here?  Is this something I should
>worry about?  If it's a problem with my kernel config, what parameters
>should I be looking at?
>
>Motherboard: Intel D510MO with builtin IDE controller (NM10).

Anyone?

If this isn't the best forum for this question, I'd appreciate a
redirection.



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