You can get your ATA controller by looking for "ATA" in /var/run/dmesg.boot.
And FTR, my problem is intermittent too, but seems to lock the system up with partition corruption when the disk is under heavy load. Good luck. Lou On 11/05/04 03:26 PM, Forrest Aldrich sat at the `puter and typed: > Sorry, I should have specified the system. This is an older Compaq > AP200. I've not idea what controller it's using on the motherboard, but > can try Googling to find out. The processor is 500mhz, and has a > reasonable amount of RAM. > > Again, this problem I'm seeing on /dev/console is intermittent. But > the system otherwise appears to be peforming fine. > > It has 2 10krpm 10gb drives (IDE). > > Anyone else seeing this problem? > > The last build of this system was Oct 24th, I can CVSup and rebuild if > there have been some corrections.... ? > > > > Forrest > > > > On 11/05/04 01:22 PM, Forrest Aldrich sat at the `puter and typed: > > I have a test machine with FreeBSD-5.3 RC2. It only has 2 drives (ATA). > > I am seeing this error (intermittently): > > > > ad0: TIMEOUT - WRITE_DMA retrying (2 retries left) LBA=3239915 > > ad0: FAILURE - WRITE_DMA timed out > > > > Though the system seems to otherwise be working just fine. > > > > This used to be a Windows/XP system for a long time, and I never had any > > trouble. So I wonder what the above can be indicative of (ie: bad > > cabling, or?). > > &[EMAIL PROTECTED] I was hoping this was a thing of the past. > > I've seen this a lot with 5.2.1, but I usually ended up with a siezed > system. I don't see how the fact that you had XP on the system could > affect FreeBSD. > > Exactly what ATA controller do you have? I've run into trouble with the > Intel ICH5 SATA controller in a new Dell Dimension 8300. I received > *lots* of suggestions that the drive was bad (as per the little sniglet > at the bottom), but that isn't the problem - it passed every utility I > was able to put it through. > > BTW, my drive is a brand new WD 160 Gig. > > After days of googling, I found only a few suggestions that the problem > was the scheduler and/or the HT processor. I turned HT off in the bios, > and it still locks up - especially when shutting down. I've put the > hardware through dozens of checks and tests, and there are absolutely no > problems except when running FreeBSD with the disk under load. Even XP > didn't lock up like this. > > I've been holding this new Dell in limbo for nearly 4 months waiting for > this exact problem to get fixed. I *really* hate to do it, but I'm > going to have to consider Linux if this doesn't get resolved in 5.3. > And it looks like it isn't. I know I could get the code and work on it > myself, but I'm not a driver engineer, and as much as I'd like to, I > don't have the time to learn it right now. > > Good luck. > Lou > -- > Louis LeBlanc [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Fully Funded Hobbyist, KeySlapper Extrordinaire :) > http://www.keyslapper.org ԿԬ > > Default, n.: > The hardware's, of course. > > > > > _______________________________________________ > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" > > -- Louis LeBlanc [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fully Funded Hobbyist, KeySlapper Extrordinaire :) http://www.keyslapper.org ԿԬ Arnold's Addendum: Everything else causes cancer in rats. _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"