Subject: DMA error messages
To: None <netbsd-users@netbsd.org>
From: segv <segv@netctl.net>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 08/01/2005 15:05:55
Hi, does anyone know what the following errors mean? Does it mean the disk is
failing or may be it's a faulty chipset? I get a lot of these when copying data
on disk. Also enabling softdep on filesystem makes kernel panic, this is
netbsd-3_BETA

Aug  1 15:40:59 dhcli-192-168-0-6 /netbsd: viaide0:1:0: lost interrupt
Aug  1 15:41:01 dhcli-192-168-0-6 /netbsd: type: ata tc_bcount: 8192 tc_skip: 0
Aug  1 15:41:01 dhcli-192-168-0-6 /netbsd: viaide0:1:0: bus-master DMA error:
missing interrupt, status=0x21 Aug  1 15:41:01 dhcli-192-168-0-6 /netbsd:
viaide0:1:0: device timeout, c_bcount=8192, c_skip0 Aug  1 15:41:01
dhcli-192-168-0-6 /netbsd: wd0a: device timeout reading fsbn 999504 of
999504-999519 (wd0 bn 11239524; cn 11893 tn 10 sn 9), retrying Aug  1 15:41:01
dhcli-192-168-0-6 /netbsd: wd0: soft error (corrected) Aug  1 15:41:22
dhcli-192-168-0-6 /netbsd: viaide0:1:0: lost interrupt Aug  1 15:41:22
dhcli-192-168-0-6 /netbsd: type: ata tc_bcount: 8192 tc_skip: 0 Aug  1 15:41:22
dhcli-192-168-0-6 /netbsd: viaide0:1:0: bus-master DMA error: missing
interrupt, status=0x21 Aug  1 15:41:22 dhcli-192-168-0-6 /netbsd: wd0a: DMA
error reading fsbn 1825456 of 1825456-1825471 (wd0 bn 12065476; cn 12767 tn 10
sn 31), retrying Aug  1 15:41:22 dhcli-192-168-0-6 /netbsd: wd0: soft error
(corrected) ~