Intel 024B server deadlock

[Jonas Lund]

Tried checking smart stats on the disk? these timeout messages are
quite common to happen when a disk is nearing death (Ignored it myself
once.. stupid move)

2009/8/3 Rashid N. Achilov <achilov-rn at askd.ru>:
> On Friday 31 July 2009, Olivier Nicole wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> > Intel server (configuration below) with 4 SCSI and one IDE
>> > drives. When I try to READ big archive file (i.e. 150-180 Mb)
>> > idependently, through tar -xf filename.tar or reading through Samba,
>> > from IDE drive (ad0) box throws a message
>> >
>> > Jul 30 16:11:38 svr-63 kernel: ad0: TIMEOUT - READ_DMA retrying (1
>> > retry left) LBA=151318527
>>
>> Just a wild guess, but what about trying to change your BIOS settings
>> for the IDE disk, like disable DMA? Or a firware upgrade of that
>> ServerWorks ROSB4 UDMA33 controller?
>
> Probably, I'll try to do this. But I'm confused that - it isn't new server, on
> the contrary, about 3-4 years it was our Windows Domain Controller and works
> fine.
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