Re: device timeouts on hard disks no matter what..

[Sarton O'Brien <bsd-xen%roguewrt.org@localhost>]

On 8/12/2009 12:53 PM, Sarton O'Brien wrote:
> On 8/12/2009 8:01 AM, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> > On Mon, Dec 07, 2009 at 09:00:38PM +0200, Teemu Rinta-aho wrote:
> > > Oh, one more point of speculation: the raidframe code. Maybe I need
> > > to get rid of that and see what happens?
> >
> > That would be another point for a weak power supply. raidframe cause
> > commands to be started on several drive exactly at the same time (the
> > time
> > needed by the kernel to send the commands is small enough to not
> > consider it),
> > which can require a lot of power from the PSU.
>
> I've been seeing this ever since using raidframe as a mirror. Up to this
> point I've ignored it as it hasn't appeared to cause me any problems.
>
> I run a dell sc430/440 with the hdd bios options set to low power/silent
> operation. I hadn't considered changing them but is this a possible
> cause? I'm happy to test when I have a chance.


Just in case it matters, here's the relevant parts of dmesg, I'm 
guessing there's is probably a better driver since I implemented this 
system, any suggestions are welcome :) ...

piixide0 at pci0 dev 31 function 1: Intel 82801GB/GR IDE Controller 
(ICH7) (rev. 0x01)
piixide0: bus-master DMA support present
piixide0: primary channel configured to compatibility mode
ioapic0: int14 0x988<vector=0x88,delmode=0x1,logical,dest=0x0> 
0x3000000<target=0x3>
piixide0: primary channel interrupting at ioapic0 pin 14, event channel 9
atabus0 at piixide0 channel 0
piixide0: secondary channel configured to compatibility mode
piixide0: secondary channel ignored (disabled)
piixide1 at pci0 dev 31 function 2: Intel 82801GB/GR Serial ATA/Raid 
Controller (ICH7) (rev. 0x01)
piixide1: bus-master DMA support present
piixide1: primary channel configured to native-PCI mode
ioapic0: int20 
0x1a9c8<vector=0xc8,delmode=0x1,logical,actlo,level,masked,dest=0x0> 
0x3000000<target=0x3>
piixide1: using ioapic0 pin 20, event channel 10 for native-PCI interrupt
atabus1 at piixide1 channel 0
piixide1: secondary channel configured to native-PCI mode
atabus2 at piixide1 channel 1
vendor 0x8086 product 0x27da (SMBus serial bus, revision 0x01) at pci0 
dev 31 function 3 not configured
isa0 at ichlpcib0
pckbc0 at isa0 port 0x60-0x64


wd0 at atabus1 drive 0: <WDC WD4000AAKS-00TMA0>
wd0: drive supports 16-sector PIO transfers, LBA48 addressing
wd0: 372 GB, 775221 cyl, 16 head, 63 sec, 512 bytes/sect x 781422768 sectors
wd0: 32-bit data port
wd0: drive supports PIO mode 4, DMA mode 2, Ultra-DMA mode 6 (Ultra/133)
wd0(piixide1:0:0): using PIO mode 4, Ultra-DMA mode 6 (Ultra/133) (using 
DMA)
wd1 at atabus2 drive 0: <WDC WD4000AAKS-00TMA0>
wd1: drive supports 16-sector PIO transfers, LBA48 addressing
wd1: 372 GB, 775221 cyl, 16 head, 63 sec, 512 bytes/sect x 781422768 sectors
wd1: 32-bit data port
wd1: drive supports PIO mode 4, DMA mode 2, Ultra-DMA mode 6 (Ultra/133)
wd1(piixide1:1:0): using PIO mode 4, Ultra-DMA mode 6 (Ultra/133) (using 
DMA)
Kernelized RAIDframe activated
sd0: fabricating a geometry
Component on: wd0a: 781422705
   Row: 0 Column: 0 Num Rows: 1 Num Columns: 2
   Version: 2 Serial Number: 2007001 Mod Counter: 1863
   Clean: No Status: 0
   sectPerSU: 128 SUsPerPU: 1 SUsPerRU: 1
   RAID Level: 1  blocksize: 512 numBlocks: 781422592
   Autoconfig: Yes
   Contains root partition: Yes
   Last configured as: raid0
Component on: wd1a: 781422705
   Row: 0 Column: 1 Num Rows: 1 Num Columns: 2
   Version: 2 Serial Number: 2007001 Mod Counter: 1863
   Clean: No Status: 0
   sectPerSU: 128 SUsPerPU: 1 SUsPerRU: 1
   RAID Level: 1  blocksize: 512 numBlocks: 781422592
   Autoconfig: Yes
   Contains root partition: Yes
   Last configured as: raid0
Found: wd0a at 0
Found: wd1a at 1
RAID autoconfigure
Configuring raid0:
Starting autoconfiguration of RAID set...
Looking for 0 in autoconfig
Found: wd0a at 0
Looking for 1 in autoconfig
Found: wd1a at 1
raid0: allocating 20 buffers of 65536 bytes.
raid0: RAID Level 1
raid0: Components: /dev/wd0a /dev/wd1a
raid0: Total Sectors: 781422592 (381554 MB)
boot device: raid0
root on raid0a dumps on raid0b

wd1a: LBA48 bug reading fsbn 268435392 of 268435392-268435519 (wd1 bn 
268435455; cn 266305 tn 0 sn 15), retrying
wd0a: LBA48 bug reading fsbn 268435392 of 268435392-268435519 (wd0 bn 
268435455; cn 266305 tn 0 sn 15), retrying
wd1: soft error (corrected)
wd0: soft error (corrected)