Subject: Re: PDC sata timeouts.
To: Greg Troxel <gdt@ir.bbn.com>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 03/25/2007 16:38:51
On Sun, Mar 25, 2007 at 09:31:32AM -0400, Greg Troxel wrote:
> 
> I was reacting to William's error message:
> 
>   wd2a: device timeout reading fsbn 268435392 of 268435392-268435519 (wd2 bn 268435455; cn 266305 tn 0 sn 15), retrying
>   pdcsata0:0:0: lost interrupt type: ata tc_bcount: 65536 tc_skip: 0
> 
> That transfer is FFFFFC0 to 1000003F, so it looks like it crosses the
> boundary.  Does the code switch to LBA48 for the whole transfer?  Does
> it need to be split into a non-LBA48 and a LB48 part?  Perhaps the
> drive can't handle such crossings.  I could be off by some power of
> two, though.

Yes, this one cross the LBA48 barrier. But in previous messages he inclued
errors with other block numbers ...

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