FAILURE - WRITE_DMA timed out

[Danny MacMillan]

On Sat, Jan 22, 2005 at 10:15:47PM +1100, Jo Bailey wrote:
> I'm getting the following timeout messages, I've copied the interesting 
> dmesg output below. Has anyone got any suggestions on what is causing this 
> or point me in the right direction?
> 
> The hardware is a standard Acer Altos R310.
> 
> acpi_cpu: throttling enabled, 8 steps (100% to 12.5%), currently 100.0%
> acd0: CDROM <SR244W1/T01A> at ata0-master UDMA33
> ad2: 76319MB <ST380013AS/3.05> [155061/16/63] at ata1-master SATA150
> Mounting root from ufs:/dev/ad2s1a
> em0: Link is up 100 Mbps Full Duplex
> ad2: TIMEOUT - WRITE_DMA retrying (2 retries left) LBA=9611455
> ad2: FAILURE - WRITE_DMA timed out
> ad2: TIMEOUT - WRITE_DMA retrying (2 retries left) LBA=9627231
> ad2: FAILURE - WRITE_DMA timed out
> ad2: TIMEOUT - WRITE_DMA retrying (2 retries left) LBA=5095231
> ad2: FAILURE - WRITE_DMA timed out
> ad2: TIMEOUT - WRITE_DMA retrying (2 retries left) LBA=9611455
> ad2: FAILURE - WRITE_DMA timed out
> ad2: TIMEOUT - WRITE_DMA retrying (2 retries left) LBA=5095231
> ad2: FAILURE - WRITE_DMA timed out
> ad2: TIMEOUT - WRITE_DMA retrying (2 retries left) LBA=9625791
> ad2: FAILURE - WRITE_DMA timed out
> ad2: TIMEOUT - WRITE_DMA retrying (2 retries left) LBA=9611267
> ad2: FAILURE - WRITE_DMA timed out
> ad2: TIMEOUT - WRITE_DMA retrying (2 retries left) LBA=9611455
> ad2: FAILURE - WRITE_DMA timed out
> ad2: TIMEOUT - WRITE_DMA retrying (2 retries left) LBA=9627327
> ad2: FAILURE - WRITE_DMA timed out

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-- 
Danny