From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jul 24 19:27:25 2012 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 A8BB9106564A for ; Tue, 24 Jul 2012 19:27:25 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dweimer@dweimer.net) Received: from webmail.dweimer.net (24-240-198-187.static.stls.mo.charter.com [24.240.198.187]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6E42C8FC0C for ; Tue, 24 Jul 2012 19:27:25 +0000 (UTC) Received: from www.dweimer.net (webmail.dweimer.net [192.168.5.1]) by webmail.dweimer.net (8.14.5/8.14.5) with ESMTP id q6OJROLn025598 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Tue, 24 Jul 2012 14:27:24 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dweimer@dweimer.net) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2012 14:27:24 -0500 From: dweimer To: Organization: dweimer.net Mail-Reply-To: In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: X-Sender: dweimer@dweimer.net User-Agent: Roundcube Webmail/0.8-rc Subject: Re: Disk Errors X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: dweimer@dweimer.net List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2012 19:27:25 -0000 On 2012-07-24 12:50, Wojciech Puchar wrote: >> Just curious, I am sure the likely issue is a bad disk, but I >> thought there > > actually not that likely. > > i had such problems, occurring randomly on many drives, and all > problems disappeared after changing computer, with the same disk. > > BTW i would recommend you to turn on AHCI driver > Now that made me just notice something interesting, my software mirror running on the internal SATA disks that contain the Operating System on this server is using the ahci driver but the external SATA drive isn't guess I am going to have to reboot tonight and check and see if something is set on the controllers BIOS that keeps it from running AHCI. Just an FYI, the server is running entirely on commodity PC hardware, as this is my home web server. Though its running all well known major brands for hardware. It is running FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE-P3, upgraded a few times via source from an original install of 8.2 on this hardware. -- Thanks, Dean E. Weimer http://www.dweimer.net/