"ad0: TIMEOUT - READ_DMA retrying" - does this mean I am fine?
Martin Cracauer
cracauer at cons.org
Fri Dec 9 15:18:14 PST 2005
This is a question on IDE error recovery.
I have a broken drive and while copying the data over to a new drive I
have seen:
Dec 9 03:09:40 grisu kernel: ad0: TIMEOUT - READ_DMA retrying (1 retry left) LBA=68460463
Dec 9 03:10:10 grisu kernel: ad0: TIMEOUT - READ_DMA retrying (1 retry left) LBA=70278843
Dec 9 03:10:39 grisu kernel: ad0: TIMEOUT - WRITE_DMA retrying (1 retry left) LBA=71672863
Dec 9 03:10:49 grisu kernel: ad0: TIMEOUT - READ_DMA retrying (1 retry left) LBA=72831895
Dec 9 03:11:49 grisu kernel: ad0: TIMEOUT - READ_DMA retrying (1 retry left) LBA=14894591
So, it says "1 retry left" every time and there is no message saying
that a hard error occured.
Does that mean the files got off the drive OK?
This is 6-stable. Intel ICH4 UDMA100 controller (Thinkpad).
Martin
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