Intel 6300ESB SATA and TIMEOUT - WRITE_DMA

[Søren Schmidt]

On 14/09/2005, at 17:05, Roger O. Svenning wrote:

> Hi
>
> I've browsed several topics on the 6300ESB SATA but found no definite
> answers.
>
> Like other people I'm getting messages like this:
> Sep 14 16:17:39 nwn kernel: ad2: TIMEOUT - WRITE_DMA retrying (2  
> retries
> left) LBA=181559215
> Sep 14 16:17:49 nwn kernel: ad2: TIMEOUT - WRITE_DMA retrying (2  
> retries
> left) LBA=178887855
> Sep 14 16:18:25 nwn kernel: ad2: TIMEOUT - WRITE_DMA retrying (2  
> retries
> left) LBA=177772175
> Sep 14 16:18:54 nwn kernel: ad2: TIMEOUT - WRITE_DMA retrying (2  
> retries
> left) LBA=181145967
> Sep 14 16:48:25 nwn kernel: ad2: TIMEOUT - READ_DMA retrying (2  
> retries
> left) LBA=111173359
>
> Entire system is brand new.
>
> Tried to cvsup and rebuild the system today, still get the same errors
> and terrible disk performance.
>
> Anybody knows the status on this controller, possible fixes or planned
> fixes?

You should try 6.0-beta4 as that contains the solution to whatever  
ATA problems you might have on 5.x. Let me know how that goes.

Søren Schmidt
sos at FreeBSD.org