Re: WRITE_DMA errors on SATA drive under 5.3-RELEASE

2005-02-28 Thread Anthony Atkielski
Garance A Drosihn writes: > First question: which SATA controller are you using? The controller is built into the Asus P4P800-E motherboard, and is based on the Intel ICH5R southbridge chipset. There's also a Promise 20378 RAID controller on board but I do NOT use it (disabled in BIOS). > And w

Re: WRITE_DMA errors on SATA drive under 5.3-RELEASE

2005-02-28 Thread Anthony Atkielski
Ted Mittelstaedt writes: > Rule of thumb on IDE hard drives, if they show more than a few errors > with a tool like smartmon, they need to be thrown in the garbage. Seems prudent to me, but right now I don't have the budget to replace this drive (yes, 40 GB IDE drives are cheap, but I don't have

RE: WRITE_DMA errors on SATA drive under 5.3-RELEASE

2005-02-28 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Anthony > Atkielski > Sent: Sunday, February 27, 2005 2:10 PM > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: WRITE_DMA errors on SATA drive under 5.3-RELEASE > > > Mike

Re: WRITE_DMA errors on SATA drive under 5.3-RELEASE

2005-02-27 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 3:53 PM +0100 2/27/05, Anthony Atkielski wrote: I've gotten two messages like the ones below today on my production server (5.3-RELEASE): ... kernel: ad10: TIMEOUT - WRITE_DMA retrying (2 retries left) LBA=4848803 ... kernel: ad10: FAILURE - WRITE_DMA timed out What do these messages mean? The

Re: WRITE_DMA errors on SATA drive under 5.3-RELEASE

2005-02-27 Thread Mike Tancsa
On Sun, 27 Feb 2005 23:09:50 +0100, in sentex.lists.freebsd.questions you wrote: >Mike Tancsa writes: > >> Could be a bad sector on the drive, or bad cable. Hard to say. Try >> /usr/ports/sysutils/smartmontools/ >> >> It can read all sorts of info off the drive and help you narrow down >> what th

Re: WRITE_DMA errors on SATA drive under 5.3-RELEASE

2005-02-27 Thread Anthony Atkielski
Mike Tancsa writes: > Could be a bad sector on the drive, or bad cable. Hard to say. Try > /usr/ports/sysutils/smartmontools/ > > It can read all sorts of info off the drive and help you narrow down > what the problem might be. Wow! That is a very cool tool. There's even a Windows port so I ca

Re: WRITE_DMA errors on SATA drive under 5.3-RELEASE

2005-02-27 Thread Anthony Atkielski
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Actually, it's not that hard. You need three mappings: > > 1. (lba address, (filesystem, block #)) > 2. ((filesystem, block #), (filesystem, inode #)) > 3. ((filesystem, inode #), (list of filenames linking to inode #)) Seems like it would be straightforward with adequ

Re: WRITE_DMA errors on SATA drive under 5.3-RELEASE

2005-02-27 Thread Mike Tancsa
On Sun, 27 Feb 2005 15:53:30 +0100, in sentex.lists.freebsd.questions you wrote: >I've gotten two messages like the ones below today on my production server >(5.3-RELEASE): > >messages:Feb 27 14:48:17 freebie kernel: ad10: TIMEOUT - WRITE_DMA retrying (2 >retries left) LBA=4848803 >messages:Feb 2

Re: WRITE_DMA errors on SATA drive under 5.3-RELEASE

2005-02-27 Thread cpghost
On Sun, Feb 27, 2005 at 05:19:32PM +0100, Anthony Atkielski wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > > Theoretically, one could use 'fsdb -r' in a scripted manner, to > > generate a mapping of file names to blocks (relative to the partition > > of the file system you are mapping). Once you have the

Re: WRITE_DMA errors on SATA drive under 5.3-RELEASE

2005-02-27 Thread Anthony Atkielski
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Theoretically, one could use 'fsdb -r' in a scripted manner, to > generate a mapping of file names to blocks (relative to the partition > of the file system you are mapping). Once you have the blocks, you'll > need to do so artithmetics to map those blocks to LBA addres

Re: WRITE_DMA errors on SATA drive under 5.3-RELEASE

2005-02-27 Thread cpghost
On Sun, Feb 27, 2005 at 03:53:30PM +0100, Anthony Atkielski wrote: > messages:Feb 27 14:48:17 freebie kernel: ad10: TIMEOUT - WRITE_DMA retrying > (2 retries left) LBA=4848803 > messages:Feb 27 14:48:17 freebie kernel: ad10: FAILURE - WRITE_DMA timed out [...] > Is there a way to work backwards

WRITE_DMA errors on SATA drive under 5.3-RELEASE

2005-02-27 Thread Anthony Atkielski
I've gotten two messages like the ones below today on my production server (5.3-RELEASE): messages:Feb 27 14:48:17 freebie kernel: ad10: TIMEOUT - WRITE_DMA retrying (2 retries left) LBA=4848803 messages:Feb 27 14:48:17 freebie kernel: ad10: FAILURE - WRITE_DMA timed out What do these messages m