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

[mlelstv%serpens.de@localhost (Michael van Elst)]

abs%NetBSD.org@localhost (David Brownlee) writes:

>2009/12/8 Sarton O'Brien <bsd-xen%roguewrt.org@localhost>:

>> 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)

>Thats something different :) - that particular drive returns an error
>when trying to read a certain sector using LBA24 so the system
>switches to LBA48 for that sector.

Sounds more like a driver bug if this is an LBA24 read. The range
spans the LBA24 boundary and at least according to my ATA documents
that is not permitted.

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