From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jul 25 02:29:35 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DE761106566B for ; Wed, 25 Jul 2012 02:29:35 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from amvandemore@gmail.com) Received: from mail-pb0-f54.google.com (mail-pb0-f54.google.com [209.85.160.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B11F18FC08 for ; Wed, 25 Jul 2012 02:29:35 +0000 (UTC) Received: by pbbro2 with SMTP id ro2so631846pbb.13 for ; Tue, 24 Jul 2012 19:29:35 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; bh=3XSENIqw/Bc9Pz8oyaYFK3GQ2XVxMbC7sLUHOqLW9/s=; b=QohxcAl+xeKNqMjFkKDd0NPWVUP4AvsbWQp+C+zvxEHhK6Md3Ey7ZiOAT7ESrHKlsE PMaNXs2jaBbASvxz/56J7Ua70YzFE3xaCeQMYXrctP+p2PMjKEoHf15Pmv9YQTrACuzr vhaWzcunexXJc+At5jAVuLJpidzfC0ECi1Srqsb8QsuDZZNVyVAt094Zl1hQ0O7U56h+ DKpZ70r5La2jwYkqNoGq0aBP6aZfOl+dAPTmnqcpZzHkgkIXsyiTePptr6zoqrdrQ+jz zJSWz2Y+sVxHCTpCwp3b/MxoyEiCO346JYy/gTL3oiduSCv50Hb0yBZ2bUg4MuE+9kVg irBQ== MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.68.203.67 with SMTP id ko3mr8210925pbc.126.1343183375430; Tue, 24 Jul 2012 19:29:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.68.227.132 with HTTP; Tue, 24 Jul 2012 19:29:35 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2012 21:29:35 -0500 Message-ID: From: Adam Vande More To: dweimer@dweimer.net Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: Disk Errors 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, 25 Jul 2012 02:29:36 -0000 On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 11:40 AM, 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 > This type of problem has been a consistent problem on FreeBSD until mid 8.x range. Try upgrading your system to something a little more modern. -- Adam Vande More