TIMEOUT - WRITE_DMA errors

[Derek Ragona]

Run diagnostics from Dell and from the hard drive manufacturer.

         -Derek


At 07:32 AM 8/25/2006, up at 3.am wrote:

>Hi:
>
>I just installed FreeBSD 6.1 on a new Dell desktop that's going to act as
>a temporary server while I migrate two older servers (4.10-STABLE) over to
>all new software, the reconfigure it to act as a remote amanda server when
>that's complete.
>
>I've noticed a bunch of these errors in the syslog:
>
>Aug 25 11:15:15 testbed kernel: ad0: TIMEOUT - WRITE_DMA retrying (1 retry
>left) LBA=29736031
>Aug 25 11:27:09 testbed kernel: ad0: TIMEOUT - WRITE_DMA retrying (1 retry
>left) LBA=12168863
>Aug 25 11:30:15 testbed kernel: ad0: TIMEOUT - WRITE_DMA retrying (1 retry
>left) LBA=8026047
>Aug 25 11:50:24 testbed kernel: ad0: TIMEOUT - WRITE_DMA retrying (1 retry
>left) LBA=29736031
>
>I did some googling, and found some seem to think it could be a problem
>with the disk, whereas others think it's nothing.  Before I put this thing
>into production, even if it's only going to be there for a couple of days,
>I'd like to make sure.
>
>Please reply directly, as I am not subscribed.
>
>Thanks!
>
>James Smallacombe                     PlantageNet, Inc. CEO and Janitor
>up at 3.am                                                     http://3.am
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