Subject: Re: bus_master DMA error (is my disk about to fail)?
To: Mark Kirby <mark@coris.org.uk>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.lip6.fr>
List: current-users
Date: 05/01/2005 22:33:13
On Fri, Apr 29, 2005 at 06:19:50PM +0000, Mark Kirby wrote:
> Hi list,
> 
> My machine just locked up solid and I  got some strange errors scroll past 
> unfortunately they are not complete as i had to transcribe it by hand.
> 
> (this is hand typed and i couldn't grab all of it)
> 
> siside0:0:1: lost interrupt
>      type:ata tc_bcount:1026 tc_skip 0
> siside0:0:1:bus_master DMA error missing interrupy status = 0x60
> siside0:0:1:device timeout, c_bcount=1024   //I missed the rest of this line
> 
> //Some more errors scroll passed that im not fast enough to catch
> 
> siside0:0:1:recal drive fault
> wd1e: device fault writing fsbn 219880030 of 219880030-219880031(wd1 bn 
> 224643838: cn 222860 tn 15 sn 13)
> 
> after a few of the above it eventually gave
> 
> wd1:soft error (corrected)
> 
> and the system became responsive again.
> 
> This is netbsd 3.99.3 (i386). I was installing a large number of binary 
> packages at the time it hung. 
> 
> Should i be woried about the health of my disk?

Probably. You should check its SMART parameters if supported, with atactl
wd1 smart status.

-- 
Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
     NetBSD: 26 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference
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