IDE DMA Timeouts

[Markus Trippelsdorf]

On Fri, Feb 10, 2006 at 11:35:30AM +0100, Michael Reifenberger wrote:
> since one year I have an amd64 Asus A8V Deluxe with 2 sata WD Raptors and
> AMD64 X2 4800 cpu running fresh i386 RELENG_6/SMP.
> 
> Yesterday I created an gmirror of both disks and now I start getting
> (occasionally) the following messages under load:
> ...
> ad0: TIMEOUT - WRITE_DMA retrying (1 retry left) LBA=58914495
> ad0: TIMEOUT - WRITE_DMA retrying (1 retry left) LBA=123039679
> ad1: WARNING - WRITE_DMA UDMA ICRC error (retrying request) LBA=54591167

It looks like bad cabling to me. Try new cables and also run 
smartctl -a /dev/ad0 (and ad1) to check if the hardware is OK.

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Markus