Re: Fallback to PIO (was: Errors from the ata disk driver)

1999-12-14 Thread Soren Schmidt
It seems Greg Lehey wrote: > On Monday, 13 December 1999 at 9:03:16 +0100, Soren Schmidt wrote: > > It seems [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> Will the backdown to PIO mode be permanent till the next reboot of the > >> machine, or will the driver be able to attempt to return to DMA mode after > >> a

Fallback to PIO (was: Errors from the ata disk driver)

1999-12-14 Thread Greg Lehey
On Monday, 13 December 1999 at 9:03:16 +0100, Soren Schmidt wrote: > It seems [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> Will the backdown to PIO mode be permanent till the next reboot of the >> machine, or will the driver be able to attempt to return to DMA mode after >> a timeout period. I'm only seeing thes

Re: Errors from the ata disk driver

1999-12-14 Thread Soren Schmidt
It seems Andrew Gallatin wrote: > > Looks like the world is safe for Promise Ultra users: > > Dec 13 18:42:37 waffle /kernel.test: ad2: UDMA CRC READ ERROR blk #22057647 retrying > Dec 13 18:49:21 waffle xntpd[122]: time reset (step) 0.389151 s > Dec 13 19:11:45 waffle xntpd[122]: time reset (st

Re: Errors from the ata disk driver

1999-12-13 Thread Andrew Gallatin
Andrew Gallatin writes: > > Soren Schmidt writes: > > I've fixed it here (I hope), and it will be in the next batch of fixes. > > I hope to get through my mailbox today :) > > Thanks. I'm running a kernel built with them now. If/when we see CRC > errors, I'll let you know what happ

Re: Errors from the ata disk driver

1999-12-13 Thread Andrew Gallatin
Soren Schmidt writes: > It seems Andrew Gallatin wrote: > > > These are UDMA CRC errors, if you upgrade to the latest current, ata > > > knows to retry these, only if they persist, something is wrong. > > > However it could indicate cable problems, ie bad connectors or maybe > > > too lo

Re: Errors from the ata disk driver

1999-12-13 Thread Soren Schmidt
It seems [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Will the backdown to PIO mode be permanent till the next reboot of the > machine, or will the driver be able to attempt to return to DMA mode after > a timeout period. I'm only seeing these errors under really heavy disk > activity (mutlitple nfs readers and wr

Re: Errors from the ata disk driver

1999-12-13 Thread Soren Schmidt
It seems Andrew Gallatin wrote: > > These are UDMA CRC errors, if you upgrade to the latest current, ata > > knows to retry these, only if they persist, something is wrong. > > However it could indicate cable problems, ie bad connectors or maybe > > too long cables.. > > > > He said the dis

Re: Errors from the ata disk driver

1999-12-11 Thread Mike Smith
> I've got a striped vinum partition that is occasionally going stale when > I get spurrious errors from the ata driver. > > I can setstate the drives and the volume back up and an fsck of the > partition doesn't show any obvious corruption. > > What do these errors indicate? Your disk is going

Re: Errors from the ata disk driver

1999-12-11 Thread joeo
Will the backdown to PIO mode be permanent till the next reboot of the machine, or will the driver be able to attempt to return to DMA mode after a timeout period. I'm only seeing these errors under really heavy disk activity (mutlitple nfs readers and writers plus rsync/mirror jobs to the vinum

Re: Errors from the ata disk driver

1999-12-11 Thread Andrew Gallatin
Soren Schmidt writes: > It seems [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I've got a striped vinum partition that is occasionally going stale when > > I get spurrious errors from the ata driver. > > > > I can setstate the drives and the volume back up and an fsck of the > > partition doesn't show any

Re: Errors from the ata disk driver

1999-12-11 Thread Soren Schmidt
It seems [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I've got a striped vinum partition that is occasionally going stale when > I get spurrious errors from the ata driver. > > I can setstate the drives and the volume back up and an fsck of the > partition doesn't show any obvious corruption. > > What do these er

Re: Errors from the ata disk driver

1999-12-11 Thread Andrew Gallatin
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > I've got a striped vinum partition that is occasionally going stale when > I get spurrious errors from the ata driver. > > I can setstate the drives and the volume back up and an fsck of the > partition doesn't show any obvious corruption. > > What do these er

Errors from the ata disk driver

1999-12-11 Thread joeo
I've got a striped vinum partition that is occasionally going stale when I get spurrious errors from the ata driver. I can setstate the drives and the volume back up and an fsck of the partition doesn't show any obvious corruption. What do these errors indicate? ad5: status=51 error=84 ad_inter