From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Aug 18 06:44:29 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A51DD1065672 for ; Wed, 18 Aug 2010 06:44:29 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from claudiu.vasadi@gmail.com) Received: from mail-wy0-f182.google.com (mail-wy0-f182.google.com [74.125.82.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3C6648FC15 for ; Wed, 18 Aug 2010 06:44:29 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wyj26 with SMTP id 26so463700wyj.13 for ; Tue, 17 Aug 2010 23:44:28 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:received:date:message-id :subject:from:to:content-type; bh=eFMPfQM1uRuecUmXWshVM6k2x/CW+idDYPFvd3Y+Z3U=; b=j/yVU2g8s68ivrFgtnEufJZjl1t5AoX+k/PXuKF1qtm56vYDVeR/7jtnaDqFSe6V7+ lnd3ls71rVSYwrTHSuOShtEA67QIXE7U9/VbBr/8/eGjNB7RIFKgpLP53m7qx+NhGfeA MW+M3iQS0dmNrbSg0H8FnmH3RMxWVBqkOxLvY= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type; b=UV5ZCTpWEWb5HPsTwlKYVQCi4qdYKWgTXL2FgRv0Z/pTKc30Ht7GemL+5uclbv9NAn DJdBXIX8ieUISldM7f9tR46Dv7pqZ7pomlezwSNmL6blwpVUXzr7X1vrB3fjoedd/ISu mJ5q1wlu63AG2zH+/gkgcXa7MCu4qVgz4U7PI= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.216.11.129 with SMTP id 1mr1654429wex.90.1282113421380; Tue, 17 Aug 2010 23:37:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.216.22.68 with HTTP; Tue, 17 Aug 2010 23:37:01 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2010 08:37:01 +0200 Message-ID: From: claudiu vasadi To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Subject: box reboot after hdd write error X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2010 06:44:29 -0000 Hello fellas, My system is a 8.0-RELEASE with 6 hdd's. 2 days ago I had some power failures and 2 disks were affected. These 2 hdd;s are connected to "atapci0: port 0xd000-0xd007,0xd100-0xd103,0xd200-0xd207,0xd300-0xd303,0xd400-0xd40f mem 0xfa4a0000-0xfa4a01ff irq 12 at device 4.0 on pci2" s-ata controller. Before the power surge, the disks were operating normally. I use them for storage, therefore no system data is kept on them. The issue here is that after the write failure, the box reboots. Up to this point I cannot figure out why it reboots, since the disks contain no "relevant" data (from a OS point of view). Do you think it's normal for an OS to reboot if 2 disks have write errors ? even more so, if the disks have no OS files on them ?