Softupdates And Samba

[Tim Daneliuk]

I installed another SATA drive on a FreeBSD 8.1-STABLE box here last night.
After the disk prep, I mounted it and then shared the whole drive via Samba.

This morning when I came in, the machine had horked all over itself and
I saw this in the log after the reboot:

Nov 20 01:06:59 ozzie kernel: ad6: TIMEOUT - WRITE_DMA48 retrying (1 retry left) LBA=34066054
3
Nov 20 01:06:59 ozzie kernel: ad6: FAILURE - WRITE_DMA48 status=51<READY,DSC,ERROR> error=10<
NID_NOT_FOUND> LBA=340660543
Nov 20 01:06:59 ozzie kernel: g_vfs_done():ad6s1d[WRITE(offset=174418165760, length=131072)]e
rror = 5
Nov 20 02:15:07 ozzie kernel: ad6: TIMEOUT - WRITE_DMA48 retrying (1 retry left) LBA=14580695
35
Nov 20 02:15:07 ozzie kernel: ad6: FAILURE - WRITE_DMA48 status=51<READY,DSC,ERROR> error=10<
NID_NOT_FOUND> LBA=1458069535
Nov 20 02:15:07 ozzie kernel: g_vfs_done():ad6s1d[WRITE(offset=746531569664, length=131072)]e
rror = 5


I reformatted and remounted the drive and accidentally forgot to enable
softupdates.  It seems to now be working fine.

Is there a known interaction with softupdates and Samba such that I should
not use them in this case, or could this just have been a loose cable
or something?  The drive is pretty new (< 6mo) and it's never been a
problem when I used it on an NTFS system previously.

TIA,
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