Bug 86312

Summary: 5.4-STABLE ATA Timeout WRITE_DMA
Product: Base System Reporter: david hu <djsdelight>
Component: i386Assignee: freebsd-i386 (Nobody) <i386>
Status: Closed FIXED    
Severity: Affects Only Me    
Priority: Normal    
Version: 5.4-STABLE   
Hardware: Any   
OS: Any   

Description david hu 2005-09-18 23:00:35 UTC 
I finally started using/turned on this box that was built a few months ago.  I then notice these messages in the /var/log/messages:

Sep 13 09:18:49 aileen kernel: ad0: TIMEOUT - WRITE_DMA retrying (2 retries left) LBA=3100383

It appears to happen every so often.. once a week at the least or serveral times a week at the most.  This is a brand new WD hard disk: 
Device Model:     WDC WD2500JB-00KFA0
Firmware Version: 08.05J08
User Capacity:    250,059,350,016 bytes

Here is my ATA controller from dmesg:
atapci1: <VIA 8237 UDMA133 controller> port 0xdc00-0xdc0f,0x376,0x170-0x177,0x3f6,0x1f0-0x1f7 at device 15.1 on pci0

Its an onboard ATA controller on the Abit KV8 Pro board.
Comment 1 Remko Lodder freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2005-11-04 11:17:26 UTC 
State Changed
From-To: open->feedback

Requested some feedback from the submitter.  I had similiar 
problems and i changed my IDE cable to a 80pins version 
which solved the problem.
Comment 2 Mark Linimon freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2006-01-29 05:22:26 UTC 
State Changed
From-To: feedback->closed

Feedback timeout (> 2 months).