Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2005 15:10:30 -0400 From: "J. T. Farmer" <jfarmer@goldsword.com> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ATA Woes. Message-ID: <42DD5026.7050902@goldsword.com> In-Reply-To: <14963954.20050719195322@byrnehq.com> References: <151574576.20050719103740@byrnehq.com> <1591154927.20050719132119@byrnehq.com> <8eea04080507191122225bd9ac@mail.gmail.com> <20050719183540.GA97643@freebie.xs4all.nl> <14963954.20050719195322@byrnehq.com>
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Tony Byrne wrote: >Hello Wilko, > >Tuesday, July 19, 2005, 7:35:40 PM, you wrote: > >WB> On Tue, Jul 19, 2005 at 11:22:01AM -0700, Jon Simola wrote.. > > > >>>What I've recently learned the hard way is that desktop drives have no >>>place in a server. I've now failed 4 of 10 SATA drives (Maxtor and WD) >>>in 1U rackmounts, and am moving on to trying the WD Raptor SATA drives >>>(which claim to be low-end server). >>> >>> > >WB> Properly cooled? > >I can't speak for Jon, but the two disks that 'failed' sequentially on >me in the last 48 hours took turns in a housing that had fans >installed to draw air over the drive. Smartctl reported the drive >temp. as 26 Deg.C. > I don't think it's a problem of proper cooling or bad drives. I have a _desktop_ box with an 80G WDC drive in it, brand new. It installs WinXP and Linux just fine. It will not get through writing the superblocks for FreeBSD during the install _unless_ I boot the install kernel in "save" mode. This is installing 5.4-RELEASE, _and_ 5-Stable (several different snapshots, the most recent 8 July). This is a PATA drive, nothing special about it. The CPU is an AlthonXP 2200, mb has the VIA KT266A chipset. Out of the box, I'm having a lot of trouble installing 5.anything on this configuration. These same READ_DMA errors appear to be occurring with both SATA and PATA drives. (The drive checks out as fine. I'm about to run WDC diagnostics on it again.) John ---------------------------------------------------------------------- John T. Farmer Owner & CTO GoldSword Systems jfarmer@goldsword.com 865-691-6498 Knoxville TN Consulting, Design, & Development of Networks & Software
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