persisting ATA problems
Ion-Mihai Tetcu
itetcu at people.tecnik93.com
Mon Oct 4 21:34:55 UTC 2004
On Mon, 04 Oct 2004 22:27:29 +0200
Søren Schmidt <sos at DeepCore.dk> wrote:
> Ion-Mihai Tetcu wrote:
> > On Mon, 04 Oct 2004 21:46:50 +0200
> > Søren Schmidt <sos at DeepCore.dk> wrote:
> >
> > [ ... ]
> >
> >
> >>>Today I had the following in log:
> >>>
> >>>ad0: WARNING - WRITE_DMA interrupt was seen but timeout fired LBA=637375
> >>>
> >>>i don`t know exactly what does it mean and if data was written or not..
> >>>can anybody explain it?
> >>
> >>It just means that the data has hit the disk but the taskqueue that
> >>should return data to the system hasn't yet. This is a warning ...
> >
> > I would suggest an entry in the FAQ explaining the *_DMA errors; Søren,
> > I can do the SGML formatting if you send me some text.
>
> First of, they are not just about _DMA, and there isn't much to explain.
>
> There are two types:
>
> WARNINGS:
> just some noise about things that are not as expected, but could be
> fixed or otherwise worked around, but not yet a:
>
> FAILURE:
> operation failed, uncorrectable error.
>
> That is the general meaning of those two words where I come from...
Yeh. I just see this kind of questions poppin´ around and I wanted to
help; bu you know better if that´ the case.
>
> --
>
> -Søren
>
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