Zsolt K�ti wrote:
My system produces these messages that I already know well from this list (as well ;): ad4: TIMEOUT - WRITE_DMA retrying (2 retries left) LBA=213249674
Like many people I was confronted with "TIMEOUT - READ_DMA" and "TIMEOUT - WRITE_DMA" errors on my drives. I was frustrated. But I found a workaround: Turning off ACPI.
I just received a Highpoint RocketRaid 1640 controller, 2 Maxtor 300GB drives, and a Supermicro 5-drive SATA cage. I am testing this configuration for a storage server.
I am using an old motherboard, DTK brand, Slot 1. 300A Celeron.
Under a fresh install of 5.3-RELEASE I am unable to read or write both drives heavily at the same time. One drive alone seems to work OK. When I run dd blasting both drives with seqential IO, I get TIMEOUT - WRITE(READ)_DMA. Repeatably, within 15 seconds.
However I got a good test before I installed 5.3-R, the box was running with 5.3-BETA. Only difference was I booted without ACPI.
So I rebooted the freshly installed 5.3-R without ACPI, and It works! I can read at 50MB/s per drive concurrently (hitting PCI bus speed limit?), and write at 30MB/s per drive concurrently. No errors so far, and its been dd'ing for a half hour.
I hope this report helps someone!
Joe Koberg joe at osoft dot us
dmesg:
FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE #0: Fri Nov 5 04:19:18 UTC 2004
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC
Timecounter "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz quality 0
CPU: Pentium II/Pentium II Xeon/Celeron (307.84-MHz 686-class CPU)
Origin = "GenuineIntel" Id = 0x660 Stepping = 0
Features=0x183f9ff<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,MMX,FXSR>
real memory = 402587648 (383 MB)
avail memory = 384270336 (366 MB)
npx0: [FAST]
npx0: <math processor> on motherboard
npx0: INT 16 interface
pcib0: <Intel 82443LX (440 LX) host to PCI bridge> pcibus 0 on motherboard
pir0: <PCI Interrupt Routing Table: 7 Entries> on motherboard
pci0: <PCI bus> on pcib0
agp0: <Intel 82443LX (440 LX) host to PCI bridge> mem 0xe0000000-0xe3ffffff at device 0.0 on pci0
pcib1: <PCI-PCI bridge> at device 1.0 on pci0
pci1: <PCI bus> on pcib1
pci1: <display, VGA> at device 0.0 (no driver attached)
isab0: <PCI-ISA bridge> at device 7.0 on pci0
isa0: <ISA bus> on isab0
atapci0: <Intel PIIX4 UDMA33 controller> port 0xf000-0xf00f,0x376,0x170-0x177,0x3f6,0x1f0-0x1f7 at device 7.1 on pci0
ata0: channel #0 on atapci0
ata1: channel #1 on atapci0
uhci0: <Intel 82371AB/EB (PIIX4) USB controller> port 0xb000-0xb01f irq 10 at device 7.2 on pci0
uhci0: [GIANT-LOCKED]
usb0: <Intel 82371AB/EB (PIIX4) USB controller> 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
ums0: Microsoft Microsoft 5-Button Mouse with IntelliEye(TM), rev 1.10/3.00, addr 2, iclass 3/1
ums0: 5 buttons and Z dir.
pci0: <bridge, PCI-unknown> at device 7.3 (no driver attached)
atapci1: <HighPoint HPT374 (channel 0+1) UDMA133 controller> port 0xc400-0xc4ff,0xc000-0xc003,0xbc00-0xbc07,0xb800-0xb803,0xb400-0xb407 irq 11 at device 17.0 on pci0
ata2: channel #0 on atapci1
ata3: channel #1 on atapci1
atapci2: <HighPoint HPT374 (channel 2+3) UDMA133 controller> port 0xd800-0xd8ff,0xd400-0xd403,0xd000-0xd007,0xcc00-0xcc03,0xc800-0xc807 irq 11 at device 17.1 on pci0
ata4: channel #0 on atapci2
ata5: channel #1 on atapci2
dc0: <ADMtek AN985 10/100BaseTX> port 0xdc00-0xdcff mem 0xec000000-0xec0003ff irq 12 at device 18.0 on pci0
miibus0: <MII bus> on dc0
ukphy0: <Generic IEEE 802.3u media interface> on miibus0
ukphy0: 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto
dc0: Ethernet address: 00:04:5a:56:80:76
dc0: if_start running deferred for Giant
dc0: [GIANT-LOCKED]
pci0: <multimedia, audio> at device 19.0 (no driver attached)
cpu0 on motherboard
orm0: <ISA Option ROMs> at iomem 0xcc000-0xcdfff,0xc0000-0xc8fff on isa0
pmtimer0 on isa0
atkbdc0: <Keyboard controller (i8042)> at port 0x64,0x60 on isa0
atkbd0: <AT Keyboard> irq 1 on atkbdc0
kbd0 at atkbd0
atkbd0: [GIANT-LOCKED]
fdc0: <Enhanced floppy controller> at port 0x3f0-0x3f5 irq 6 drq 2 on isa0
fdc0: [FAST]
fd0: <1440-KB 3.5" drive> on fdc0 drive 0
ppc0: <Parallel port> at port 0x378-0x37f irq 7 on isa0
ppc0: SMC-like chipset (ECP/EPP/PS2/NIBBLE) in COMPATIBLE mode
ppc0: FIFO with 16/16/8 bytes threshold
ppbus0: <Parallel port bus> on ppc0
plip0: <PLIP network interface> on ppbus0
lpt0: <Printer> on ppbus0
lpt0: Interrupt-driven port
ppi0: <Parallel I/O> on ppbus0
sc0: <System console> at flags 0x100 on isa0
sc0: VGA <16 virtual consoles, flags=0x300>
sio0 at port 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 flags 0x10 on isa0
sio0: type 16550A
sio1 at port 0x2f8-0x2ff irq 3 on isa0
sio1: type 16550A
vga0: <Generic ISA VGA> at port 0x3c0-0x3df iomem 0xa0000-0xbffff on isa0
unknown: <PNP0303> can't assign resources (port)
unknown: <PNP0c02> can't assign resources (memory)
unknown: <PNP0a03> can't assign resources (port)
unknown: <PNP0501> can't assign resources (port)
unknown: <PNP0501> can't assign resources (port)
unknown: <PNP0700> can't assign resources (port)
unknown: <PNP0401> can't assign resources (port)
Timecounter "TSC" frequency 307842170 Hz quality 800
Timecounters tick every 10.000 msec
ad0: 43979MB <IBM-DTLA-307045/TX6OA60A> [89355/16/63] at ata0-master UDMA33
ad4: 286188MB <Maxtor 6B300S0/BANC1B10> [581463/16/63] at ata2-master UDMA133
ad6: 286188MB <Maxtor 6B300S0/BANC1B10> [581463/16/63] at ata3-master UDMA133
Mounting root from ufs:/dev/ad0s1a
After these messages the two former cases result in FAILURE and finally in panic. Even background fsck cannot run without another panic, only single user mode can help. All these prevent using them on my HW. However B7, although displays the messages as well, works seemingly fine. For the time being this version is sufficent, but I'd like to know - if possible at all - what the difference could be between the versions and if one can expect to bring the actual 5.3 version's state to B7's in this respect?
Further to this, the different versions display the behavior of relatively frequently (many time in an hour?) stalling their responsivity for some seconds. Most of the times no message can be seen on the consol after this. It is also more rare on B7.
I also found that pendrive's sensing by 5.3 RELEASE/STABLE more frequently results in panic than B7's. (As a matter of fact I have not seen it with B7 for weeks since I installed it.)
I use the following either with GENERIC or custom kernel:
Abit NF7-S (nVidia chipsets, SiI3112 on board), Athlon 2600+, Samsung 120G SATA, LEXAR MEDIA JUMPDRIVE, rev 1.10/0.01
Please cc it to me as well, since I'am not on the list for the time being. Many thanks!
Zsolt
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