Every 12-hrs -- "ad0: TIMEOUT - WRITE DMA"

[Fabian Keil]

"V.I.Victor" <idmc_vivr at intgdev.com> wrote:

> For the last 4-days, our (otherwise OK) 5.4-RELEASE machine has been
> reporting:
> 
> Feb 12 12:08:05 : ad0: TIMEOUT - WRITE_DMA retrying (2 retries left) LBA=2701279
> Feb 13 00:08:51 : ad0: TIMEOUT - WRITE_DMA retrying (2 retries left) LBA=2701279
> Feb 13 12:09:38 : ad0: TIMEOUT - WRITE_DMA retrying (2 retries left) LBA=2963331
> Feb 14 00:10:24 : ad0: TIMEOUT - WRITE_DMA retrying (2 retries left) LBA=2705947
> Feb 14 12:11:09 : ad0: TIMEOUT - WRITE_DMA retrying (2 retries left) LBA=2706335
> Feb 15 00:12:02 : ad0: TIMEOUT - WRITE_DMA retrying (2 retries left) LBA=2832383
> Feb 15 12:12:57 : ad0: TIMEOUT - WRITE_DMA retrying (2 retries left) LBA=139839
> Feb 16 00:13:50 : ad0: TIMEOUT - WRITE_DMA retrying (2 retries left) LBA=131391
> Feb 16 12:14:36 : ad0: TIMEOUT - WRITE_DMA retrying (2 retries left) LBA=131391
> 
> The system was created Jan 08 and, prior to the above, the ad0: timeout had
> only been reported twice:
> 
> Jan 25 11:43:34 : ad0: TIMEOUT - WRITE_DMA retrying (2 retries left) LBA=17920255
> Feb 6 11:59:42 : ad0: TIMEOUT - WRITE_DMA retrying (2 retries left) LBA=2832383

If smartd doesn't report any problems try changing the ATA cable.

Worked for me once, although my messages didn't come every 12 hours
and would later result in an disconnected system disk leading to a
crash.

Fabian
-- 
http://www.fabiankeil.de/
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