persisting ATA problems

[Ion-Mihai Tetcu]

On Mon, 04 Oct 2004 22:27:29 +0200
Søren Schmidt <sos at DeepCore.dk> wrote:

> Ion-Mihai Tetcu wrote:
> > On Mon, 04 Oct 2004 21:46:50 +0200
> > Søren Schmidt <sos at DeepCore.dk> wrote:
> > 
> >  [ ... ]
> > 
> > 
> >>>Today I had the following in log:
> >>>
> >>>ad0: WARNING - WRITE_DMA interrupt was seen but timeout fired LBA=637375
> >>>
> >>>i don`t know exactly what does it mean and if data was written or not..
> >>>can anybody explain it?
> >>
> >>It just means that the data has hit the disk but the taskqueue that 
> >>should return data to the system hasn't yet. This is a warning ...
> > 
> > I would suggest an entry in the FAQ explaining the *_DMA errors; Søren,
> > I can do the SGML formatting if you send me some text.
> 
> First of, they are not just about _DMA, and there isn't much to explain.
> 
> There are two types:
> 
> WARNINGS:
> just some noise about things that are not as expected, but could be 
> fixed or otherwise worked around, but not yet a:
> 
> FAILURE:
> operation failed, uncorrectable error.
> 
> That is the general meaning of those two words where I come from...

Yeh. I just see this kind of questions poppin´ around and I wanted to
help; bu you know better if that´ the case.




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