Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2012 17:46:29 -0500 From: dweimer <dweimer@dweimer.net> To: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Disk Errors Message-ID: <b6ee940ff54720d5ebb4367ba2358140@dweimer.net> In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1207241502440.62203@wonkity.com> References: <d65bfc394e4b31d92bb6ab9e8d220d16@dweimer.net> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1207241502440.62203@wonkity.com>
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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 <Seagate ST31000528AS CC46> 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/
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