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Date:      Thu, 16 Feb 2006 20:12:21 -0500
From:      Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net>
To:        "V.I.Victor" <idmc_vivr@intgdev.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Every 12-hrs -- "ad0: TIMEOUT - WRITE DMA"
Message-ID:  <0m8av15mf69poggbn2l028np6d5cptlsic@4ax.com>
In-Reply-To: <W204334961192261140120631@webmail15>
References:  <W204334961192261140120631@webmail15>

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On Thu, 16 Feb 2006 20:10:31 +0000, in sentex.lists.freebsd.questions
you wrote:

>For the last 4-days, our (otherwise OK) 5.4-RELEASE machine has been
>reporting:
>
>Feb 12 12:08:05 : ad0: TIMEOUT - WRITE_DMA retrying (2 retries left) =
LBA=3D2701279
>Feb 13 00:08:51 : ad0: TIMEOUT - WRITE_DMA retrying (2 retries left) =
LBA=3D2701279
>Feb 13 12:09:38 : ad0: TIMEOUT - WRITE_DMA retrying (2 retries left) =
LBA=3D2963331
>Feb 14 00:10:24 : ad0: TIMEOUT - WRITE_DMA retrying (2 retries left) =
LBA=3D2705947
>
>So -- can anyone help track this down?


It sounds like a hardware issue.  Install
/usr/ports/sysutils/smartmontools and "ask" the drive to see whats up.

	---Mike
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Mike Tancsa, Sentex communications http://www.sentex.net
Providing Internet Access since 1994
mike@sentex.net, (http://www.tancsa.com)



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