FreeBSD 5.4-PRERELEASE: panic in ffs_valloc

[Gary Kline]

On Sat, Mar 26, 2005 at 10:16:57PM +0000, Gary Kline wrote:
On Sat, Mar 26, 2005 at 09:47:47PM +0100, Ed Schouten wrote:
> * Kris Kennaway <kris at obsecurity.org> wrote:
> > Unfortunately that's a relatively common bug that no-one's been able to
> > track down yet. It is sometimes associated to failing drives, but not
> > always.
> 
> I reinstalled my machine yesterday and it Just Works (tm), except for this
> warning in my dmesg:
> 
> | ad0: WARNING - READ_DMA UDMA ICRC error (retrying request) LBA=49904459
> 
> where LBA is always the same number. Does that mean my disk has a bad block?
> 
> Yours,
> -- 
>  Ed Schouten <ed at il.fontys.nl>


	This is a FWIW, but the same thing is happening with DMA 
	"WRITES" on with my 5.3 CD set from Nov, '04 on a 160G Maxtor
	drive that I bought last July.   4.10 was fine, and my 
	5.2 to 5.3 upgrades went smoothly too.  I used the CD set
	because I was configuring a dual-boot W2K/FBSD setup.

	gary



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