AHCI timeout
Reid Linnemann
lreid at cs.okstate.edu
Tue Dec 6 19:42:39 UTC 2011
On Tue, Dec 6, 2011 at 12:25 PM, C. P. Ghost <cpghost at cordula.ws> wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 6, 2011 at 4:41 PM, Julien Cigar <jcigar at ulb.ac.be> wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I'm running 9.0-RC3 on a HP Proliant Microserver (N40L). A disk died in my
>> graid3 array and I replaced it with a new one, and now have tons of:
>>
>> ahcich3: Timeout on slot 5 port 0
>> ahcich3: is 00000000 cs 00000000 ss 00003f60 rs 00003f60 tfd 40 serr
>> 00000000 cmd 0000ed17
>
> Check the connectors, both on disk and on the controller. They're
> usually the culprit. Sometimes it is also a firmware problem, but
> I'll try to replace the cables first.
>
>> (...)
>>
>> Those are Seagate disks:
>>
>> jcigar at backup conf % sudo camcontrol devlist
>> <VB0250EAVER HPG0> at scbus0 target 0 lun 0 (pass0,ada0)
>> <ST31000528AS CC38> at scbus1 target 0 lun 0 (pass1,ada1)
>> <ST31000528AS CC38> at scbus2 target 0 lun 0 (pass2,ada2)
>> <ST31000333AS CC1H> at scbus3 target 0 lun 0 (pass3,ada3)
>>
>> The controller is:
>>
>> ahci0 at pci0:0:17:0: class=0x010601 card=0x1609103c chip=0x43911002
>> rev=0x40 hdr=0x00
>> vendor = 'ATI Technologies Inc'
>> device = 'SB7x0/SB8x0/SB9x0 SATA Controller [AHCI mode]'
>> class = mass storage
>> subclass = SATA
>>
>> jcigar at backup conf % vmstat -i
>> interrupt total rate
>> irq17: ehci0 ehci1+ 2 0
>> irq18: ohci0 ohci1+ 30 0
>> irq256: bge0 31354 4
>> irq257: ahci0 19012658 2477
>> irq258: hpet0:t0 4926229 641
>> irq259: hpet0:t1 4635261 603
>> Total 28605534 3727
>>
>>
>> Any idea what could be the cause of this ... ?
>>
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Julien
>
> -cpghost.
>
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I've had similar problems with a failing power supply when I used to
run a gmirror on 7-STABLE. I was not running with AHCI, so I did not
get the same messages; but I did get repeated WRITE_DMA timeouts on my
da disks that eventually resulted in one disk being detached from the
mirror. Cold booting was an arduous process because 9 boots of 10 the
system would start sputtering out on DMA timeouts almost immediately
after mounting the filesystems, and take well over 30 minutes just to
get through rc. I changed cables, swapped the disks around, checked
smartctl over and over to no avail. Eventually I bought a new rig and
hooked it up to the original power supply - the problems persisted. I
swapped in the new power supply and hey presto! the problems went
away. You mentioned hardware failure in the original disk, so it might
not be too far of a stretch to consider the power supply might also
have suffered a failure.
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