Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2006 11:11:28 -0500 From: Derek Ragona <derek@computinginnovations.com> To: up@3.am, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: TIMEOUT - WRITE_DMA errors Message-ID: <6.0.0.22.2.20060825111057.026ec9b8@mail.computinginnovations.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.44.0608250825230.67161-100000@richard2.pil.net> References: <Pine.BSF.4.44.0608250825230.67161-100000@richard2.pil.net>
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Run diagnostics from Dell and from the hard drive manufacturer.
-Derek
At 07:32 AM 8/25/2006, up@3.am wrote:
>Hi:
>
>I just installed FreeBSD 6.1 on a new Dell desktop that's going to act as
>a temporary server while I migrate two older servers (4.10-STABLE) over to
>all new software, the reconfigure it to act as a remote amanda server when
>that's complete.
>
>I've noticed a bunch of these errors in the syslog:
>
>Aug 25 11:15:15 testbed kernel: ad0: TIMEOUT - WRITE_DMA retrying (1 retry
>left) LBA=29736031
>Aug 25 11:27:09 testbed kernel: ad0: TIMEOUT - WRITE_DMA retrying (1 retry
>left) LBA=12168863
>Aug 25 11:30:15 testbed kernel: ad0: TIMEOUT - WRITE_DMA retrying (1 retry
>left) LBA=8026047
>Aug 25 11:50:24 testbed kernel: ad0: TIMEOUT - WRITE_DMA retrying (1 retry
>left) LBA=29736031
>
>I did some googling, and found some seem to think it could be a problem
>with the disk, whereas others think it's nothing. Before I put this thing
>into production, even if it's only going to be there for a couple of days,
>I'd like to make sure.
>
>Please reply directly, as I am not subscribed.
>
>Thanks!
>
>James Smallacombe PlantageNet, Inc. CEO and Janitor
>up@3.am http://3.am
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