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Date:      Fri, 1 Oct 2004 10:28:16 +0930
From:      Tristan <tris@infoeng.flinders.edu.au>
To:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: ad0: TIMEOUT - WRITE_DMA retrying (2 retries left) LBA=xxx
Message-ID:  <20041001102816.5b14b79f@rhino>
In-Reply-To: <20041001005227.GA28811@electra.cse.Buffalo.EDU>
References:  <20041001093515.5cd51b2d@rhino> <20041001005227.GA28811@electra.cse.Buffalo.EDU>

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On Thu, 30 Sep 2004 20:52:27 -0400
Ken Smith <kensmith@cse.Buffalo.EDU> wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 01, 2004 at 09:35:15AM +0930, Tristan wrote:
> 
> > FreeBSD 6.0-CURRENT with GENERIC kernel built 27th Sep.
> > On a SunBlade 100 I see these messages regularly when
> > dma is enabled. The messages go away when I either use
> > atacontrol to set the mode to PIO4 or set hw.ata.ata_dma to 0
> > I do get data corruption on the disk if left in DMA mode.
> 
> Just FYI my primary test machine is a SunBlade 100, it seems to
> be doing OK with a kernel built from this morning's source.  I've
> been doing most of my builds from an NFS server though, I'll do
> a check with a full buildworld which will use the local drive more.
> 
> > ad0: 14594MB <ST315310A/3.28> [29651/16/63] at ata2-master UDMA66
> > acd0: CDRW <LTN486S/YSU1> at ata2-slave PIO4
> > ata3-master: DMA limited to UDMA33, non-ATA66 cable or device
> > ad1: 39266MB <IBM-DTLA-305040/TW4OA60A> [79780/16/63] at ata3-master UDMA33
> > Mounted root from ufs:/dev/ad0a.
> 
> Is the data corruption spread across both drives, or just ad1?  That
> message about the cable or device being limited could be a clue.

nope, its only on ad0. ad1 seems to be fine, however it is hardly used.



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