From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Mar 17 12:14:07 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 54A7916A401 for ; Fri, 17 Mar 2006 12:14:07 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from pvh@wfeet.za.net) Received: from swing.sanbi.ac.za (swing.sanbi.ac.za [196.38.142.98]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5C55E43D67 for ; Fri, 17 Mar 2006 12:14:05 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from pvh@wfeet.za.net) Received: from psytrance.egenetics.com ([196.38.142.87]) by swing.sanbi.ac.za with esmtp (Exim 4.43 (FreeBSD)) id 1FKDpv-000AAD-Qp for freebsd-stable@freebsd.org; Fri, 17 Mar 2006 14:13:43 +0200 Message-ID: <441AA807.5090100@wfeet.za.net> Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2006 14:13:59 +0200 From: Peter van Heusden User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5 (X11/20060317) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: SETFEATURES SET TRANSFER MODE semaphore timeout on FreeBSD 6.0 RELEASE X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2006 12:14:07 -0000 Hi I have a newly installed FreeBSD 6.0 release machine on which I am getting the following error on the console: "ad4: req=0xc23bc258 SETFEATURES SET TRANSFER MODE semaphore timeout !! DANGER Will Robinson !!" This is generally associated with heightened disk activity, but it happens inevitably after a while (minutes or hours) if the machine is running. The atacontrol list shows: ATA channel 0: Master: no device present Slave: no device present ATA channel 1: Master: acd0 ATA/ATAPI revision 0 Slave: no device present ATA channel 2: Master: ad4 ATA/ATAPI revision 5 Slave: no device present ATA channel 3: Master: no device present Slave: no device present and the ATA controller in use is a Promise PDC20262. Smartctl shows that all values on the disk are ok - i.e. it doesn't look like the disk is failing. Does anyone know what I can do to fix error? Thanks, Peter Copyright (c) 1992-2005 The FreeBSD Project. Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE #0: Wed Mar 15 12:48:25 SAST 2006 root@ensemblit.egenetics.com:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC Timecounter "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz quality 0 CPU: Pentium II/Pentium II Xeon/Celeron (532.81-MHz 686-class CPU) Origin = "GenuineIntel" Id = 0x665 Stepping = 5 Features=0x183f9ff real memory = 335478784 (319 MB) avail memory = 318865408 (304 MB) npx0: [FAST] npx0: on motherboard npx0: INT 16 interface acpi0: on motherboard acpi0: Power Button (fixed) pci_link0: irq 11 on acpi0 pci_link1: on acpi0 pci_link2: irq 5 on acpi0 pci_link3: irq 10 on acpi0 cpu0: on acpi0 acpi_button0: on acpi0 pcib0: port 0xcf8-0xcff,0x4000-0x4041,0x5000-0x500f on acpi0 pci0: on pcib0 agp0: mem 0xe0000000-0xe3ffffff at device 0.0 on pci0 pcib1: at device 1.0 on pci0 pci1: on pcib1 pci1: at device 0.0 (no driver attached) isab0: at device 7.0 on pci0 isa0: on isab0 atapci0: port 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6,0x170-0x177,0x376,0xf000-0xf00f at device 7.1 on pci0 ata0: on atapci0 ata1: on atapci0 uhci0: port 0xa000-0xa01f irq 10 at device 7.2 on pci0 uhci0: [GIANT-LOCKED] usb0: on uhci0 usb0: USB revision 1.0 uhub0: Intel UHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1 uhub0: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered pci0: at device 7.3 (no driver attached) xl0: <3Com 3c905C-TX Fast Etherlink XL> port 0xa400-0xa47f mem 0xe9020000-0xe902007f irq 5 at device 10.0 on pci0 miibus0: on xl0 xlphy0: <3c905C 10/100 internal PHY> on miibus0 xlphy0: 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto xl0: Ethernet address: 00:50:da:e2:35:3b pci0: at device 12.0 (no driver attached) pci0: