Every 12-hrs -- "ad0: TIMEOUT - WRITE DMA"

[Mike Tancsa]

On Thu, 16 Feb 2006 20:10:31 +0000, in sentex.lists.freebsd.questions
you wrote:

>For the last 4-days, our (otherwise OK) 5.4-RELEASE machine has been
>reporting:
>
>Feb 12 12:08:05 : ad0: TIMEOUT - WRITE_DMA retrying (2 retries left) LBA=2701279
>Feb 13 00:08:51 : ad0: TIMEOUT - WRITE_DMA retrying (2 retries left) LBA=2701279
>Feb 13 12:09:38 : ad0: TIMEOUT - WRITE_DMA retrying (2 retries left) LBA=2963331
>Feb 14 00:10:24 : ad0: TIMEOUT - WRITE_DMA retrying (2 retries left) LBA=2705947
>
>So -- can anyone help track this down?


It sounds like a hardware issue.  Install
/usr/ports/sysutils/smartmontools and "ask" the drive to see whats up.

	---Mike
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