sata drive problem

Evren Yurtesen wrote:
>Hello, I have a system which had problems with the following errors 
>after working perfectly for 2 days. Is there any suggestions about what 
>can I do about this? else than checking the cables :) I think the drives 
>work fine also. They were doing pretty fine with another mainboard.


When under heavy load, i get the error (just tested from a cvsup 09/02/2004 
src):

ad4: TIMEOUT - WRITE_DMA retrying (2 retries left)  LBA=...
ad4: TIMEOUT - WRITE_DMA retrying (2 retries left)  LBA=...

sometimes it crashes right away, sometimes it waits a little.

can't get the exact LBA sectors because the system crashes cold, and its not 
logged (i've seen the error before a crash)

Using a previous kernel snapshot (around jan 20, 2004), i can work normally, 
even with heavy loads.


The relevant system data:

Feb  9 06:48:06  kernel: ACPI APIC Table: <INTEL  D875BZLK>
Feb  9 06:48:06 moonlight kernel: CPU: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.40GHz 
(2394.01-MHz 686-class CPU)
Feb  9 06:48:06 moonlight kernel: Origin = "GenuineIntel"  Id = 0xf29  
Stepping = 9
Feb  9 06:48:06 moonlight kernel: 
Features=0xbfebfbff<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,A
PIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CLFLUSH,DTS,ACPI,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,SS,HTT,TM,PBE>
Feb  9 06:48:06 moonlight kernel: Hyperthreading: 2 logical CPUs
...

Feb  9 06:48:06 moonlight kernel: ata0: at 0x1f0 irq 14 on atapci0
Feb  9 06:48:06 moonlight kernel: ata0: [MPSAFE]
Feb  9 06:48:06 moonlight kernel: ata1: at 0x170 irq 15 on atapci0
Feb  9 06:48:06 moonlight kernel: ata1: [MPSAFE]
Feb  9 06:48:06 moonlight kernel: atapci1: <Intel ICH5 SATA150 controller> 
port 0xdc00-0xdc0f,0xe000-0xe003,0xe400-0xe407,0xe800-0xe803,0xec00-0xec07 
irq 18 at device 31.2 on pci0
Feb  9 06:48:06 moonlight kernel: atapci1: [MPSAFE]
Feb  9 06:48:06 moonlight kernel: ata2: at 0xec00 on atapci1
Feb  9 06:48:06 moonlight kernel: ata2: [MPSAFE]
Feb  9 06:48:06 moonlight kernel: ata3: at 0xe400 on atapci1
Feb  9 06:48:06 moonlight kernel: ata3: [MPSAFE]
Feb  9 06:48:06 moonlight kernel: pci0: <serial bus, SMBus> at device 31.3 (no 
driver attached)

...

Feb  9 06:48:06 moonlight kernel: GEOM: create disk ad0 dp=0xc44aa160
Feb  9 06:48:06 moonlight kernel: ad0: 57241MB <ST360020A> [116301/16/63] at 
ata0-master UDMA100
Feb  9 06:48:06 moonlight kernel: acd0: CDRW <LITE-ON LTR-52246S> at 
ata1-master PIO4
Feb  9 06:48:06 moonlight kernel: GEOM: create disk ad4 dp=0xc459a360
Feb  9 06:48:06 moonlight kernel: ad4: 78167MB <Maxtor 6Y080M0> [158816/16/63] 
at ata2-master UDMA100
Feb  9 06:48:06 moonlight kernel: GEOM: create disk cd0 dp=0xc449d600