I two have been seeing this same issue with both 4.9 and 5.3 different
messages though and i have yet to find a solution to it here are my
messages that im getting
from 5.3
ad0: WARNING - WRITE_DMA UDMA ICRC error (retrying request) LBA=6707519
ad0: WARNING - WRITE_DMA UDMA ICRC error (retrying request) LBA=6514167
from 4.9
ad0s1b: UDMA ICRC error writing fsbn 8412383 of 1060432-1060439 (ad0s1 bn
8412383; cn 523 tn 164 sn 56) retrying
ad0s1b: UDMA ICRC error writing fsbn 7571295 of 639888-639895 (ad0s1 bn
7571295; cn 471 tn 74 sn 18) retrying
and the only time that i really see this error message come up is when
theres heavy disk I/O such as durring a portupgrade -arRCc
----- Original Message -----
From: "Oleksiy Yakimovych" <yoleksiy@cisco.com>
To: <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org>
Sent: Wednesday, December 22, 2004 10:03 AM
Subject: Re: TIMEOUT - WRITE_DMA retrying (2 retries left)
> Hi Steve,
>
> As far as I know this is not a hardware problem.
> Probably there is such DMA problem in 5.3.
> Read freebsd-stable mail archive. And I think the problem is not only
> with
> SATA driver.
> So, probably we should wait for a fix :)
>
> Regards,
> Alexei
>
> "Steve" <news647@powersystemsdirectme.com> wrote in message
> news:10sgt51ir4op035@corp.supernews.com...
> > Ok, using a new motherboard, ASUS A7V600-X, was using a A7V133. Same
> CPU,
> > same disk drives.
> >
> > On the old motherboard, I never ever had this message.
> >
> > On the new motherboard, I get it every few hours. Sample logs at the
> end.
> >
> > This is on FreeBSD 5.2.1. I see old messages about this around the
> net, in
> > most every case, people have their machine lock up. There were
> suggestions
> > this was a drive issue, not likely as it works on the old motherboard.
>
> > Also, I saw other people who switched machines and the problem went
> away.
> > But, I have yet to lock or fail. I saw others who said their files get
>
> > corrupted, so far, have not seen that happen either. We HAVE seen one
> > machine who loses connections to Samba hosted files on this server,
> but
> > only one machine, so that may be unrelated.
> >
> > So, I guess my question is this - is there a workaround, software
> wise?
> > Does anyone have this message but not any problems? Any other clues as
> to
> > why this happens? Suggestions? Is it likely an upgrade to 5.3 will
> cause
> > this to go away, any specific fixes that may affect this? Anyone else
> have
> > the A7V600-X motherboard and does NOT have this issue?
> >
> > Please remove the trailing "me" on my email address if you
wish to
> reply
> > directly to me on the email address, the domain as is will not work!
> >
> > Steve
> >
> >
> > ad0: 114473MB <WDC WD1200JB-00FUA0> [232581/16/63] at
ata0-master
> UDMA100
> > GEOM: create disk ad1 dp=0xc6b24c60
> >
> > atapci1: <VIA 8237 UDMA133 controller> port 0xa800-0xa80f irq 14
at
> device
> > 15.1 on pci0
> > ata0: at 0x1f0 irq 14 on atapci1
> > ata0: [MPSAFE]
> >
> >
> > Dec 21 02:58:23 linux kernel: ad0: TIMEOUT - WRITE_DMA retrying (2
> retries
> > left) LBA=287
> > Dec 21 07:04:02 linux kernel: ad0: TIMEOUT - WRITE_DMA retrying (2
> retries
> > left) LBA=122872179
> > Dec 21 09:37:57 linux kernel: ad0: TIMEOUT - WRITE_DMA retrying (2
> retries
> > left) LBA=122841791
> > Dec 21 10:05:17 linux kernel: ad0: TIMEOUT - WRITE_DMA retrying (2
> retries
> > left) LBA=3749759
> > Dec 21 11:02:33 linux kernel: ad0: TIMEOUT - WRITE_DMA retrying (2
> retries
> > left) LBA=3885087
> > Dec 21 11:03:44 linux kernel: ad0: TIMEOUT - WRITE_DMA retrying (2
> retries
> > left) LBA=3623135
> > Dec 21 11:05:04 linux kernel: ad0: TIMEOUT - WRITE_DMA retrying (2
> retries
> > left) LBA=3885087
> >
> >
>
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