From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jul 24 22:46:30 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 BD32A1065672 for ; Tue, 24 Jul 2012 22:46:30 +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 6AA0A8FC0C for ; Tue, 24 Jul 2012 22:46:30 +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 q6OMkTqg001762 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 bits=256 verify=NO); Tue, 24 Jul 2012 17:46:30 -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 17:46:29 -0500 From: dweimer To: Warren Block Organization: dweimer.net Mail-Reply-To: In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: X-Sender: dweimer@dweimer.net User-Agent: Roundcube Webmail/0.8-rc Cc: FreeBSD Questions 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 22:46:30 -0000 On 2012-07-24 16:10, Warren Block wrote: > On Tue, 24 Jul 2012, dweimer wrote: > >> Just curious, I am sure the likely issue is a bad disk, but I >> thought there might be a chance this could be caused by possibly by >> something else. >> >> I have three 1TB disks I use for backup, two of them are Western >> Digital drives I bought specifically for this purpose. One is a >> Seagate drive that came out of a barebones PC that I replaced with a >> couple smaller drives in a stripe to gain performance. I use the >> drives in an external SATA dock, using geom eli encryption, the >> western digital drives give me no problems, but the seagate drive >> gives me a lot of the following errors under load. >> >> ad4: TIMEOUT - WRITE_DMA48 retrying (1 retry left) LBA=817755328 >> ad4: WARNING - WRITE_DMA48 UDMA ICRC error (retrying request) >> LBA=837397120 >> ad4: TIMEOUT - WRITE_DMA48 retrying (1 retry left) LBA=879786112 >> ad4: WARNING - WRITE_DMA48 UDMA ICRC error (retrying request) >> LBA=882931200 >> ad4: WARNING - WRITE_DMA48 UDMA ICRC error (retrying request) >> LBA=890542016 >> ad4: WARNING - WRITE_DMA48 UDMA ICRC error (retrying request) >> LBA=902767296 >> ad4: TIMEOUT - WRITE_DMA48 retrying (1 retry left) LBA=904071296 >> >> dmesg info about the drive at connection time: >> ad4: 953869MB at ata2-master UDMA100 >> SATA 3Gb/s > > There are more than a few problem reports on the net concerning that > drive, even on Seagate's own forums. Both hardware problems and > firmware problems. Your later post says you have firmware version > CC46, and Seagate has an update to CC49. That's worth a try. > > http://knowledge.seagate.com/articles/en_US/FAQ/213891en?language=en_US Definately going to try this firmware update, if only it would see the disk through the eSATA controller, but unfortunately it marks it as a JBOD raid instead of straight access to the disk. So this will have to wait until I put my puppy to bed for the night as she keeps trying to eat the pillow from my bed while I am working on this. -- Thanks, Dean E. Weimer http://www.dweimer.net/