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Date:      Sat, 25 Apr 2009 17:07:29 -0700
From:      smallpox <smallpox@gmail.com>
To:        freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org
Subject:   altus 1300 / penguincomputing major issues with hard disks
Message-ID:  <49F3A5C1.8030801@gmail.com>

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I acquired a few of these last year and apparently they're perfect for 
linux, they're a bit outdated but I cannot stand linux.

I've run one of these servers pretty stable with SATA150 and SATA300 
drives but I received two 'FACTORY RECERTIFIED' drives back from Seagate 
(yes, they're a mess) but these were the older 500GIG 7200.10 ones. I 
popped them in at the datacente rand immediately came the box:

Apr 24 17:03:48 x kernel: ad6: 114473MB <Seagate ST3120827AS 3.42> at 
ata3-master SATA150
Apr 24 17:03:48 x kernel: GEOM_MIRROR: Device mirror/gm0 launched (1/1).
Apr 24 17:03:48 x kernel: ad10: 476940MB <Seagate ST3500630AS 3.AAE> at 
ata5-master SATA300

then i rebooted it to add the second 500 gig drive and:

Apr 24 17:07:42 x kernel: ad6: 114473MB <Seagate ST3120827AS 3.42> at 
ata3-master SATA150
Apr 24 17:07:42 x kernel: ad8: 476940MB <Seagate ST3500630AS 3.AAE> at 
ata4-master SATA300
Apr 24 17:07:42 x kernel: GEOM_MIRROR: Device mirror/gm0 launched (1/1).
Apr 24 17:07:42 x kernel: ad8: FAILURE - READ_DMA48 
status=51<READY,DSC,ERROR> error=84<ICRC,ABORTED> LBA=976773151
Apr 24 17:07:42 x kernel: ad10: 476940MB <Seagate ST3500630AS 3.AAE> at 
ata5-master SATA300
Apr 24 17:07:42 x kernel: SMP: AP CPU #1 Launched!
Apr 24 17:07:42 x kernel: ad8: WARNING - READ_DMA UDMA ICRC error 
(retrying request) LBA=128
Apr 24 17:07:42 x kernel: ad8: WARNING - READ_DMA UDMA ICRC error 
(retrying request) LBA=128
Apr 24 17:07:42 x kernel: ad8: FAILURE - READ_DMA 
status=51<READY,DSC,ERROR> error=84<ICRC,ABORTED> LBA=128
Apr 24 17:07:42 x kernel: ad8: WARNING - READ_DMA UDMA ICRC error 
(retrying request) LBA=16
Apr 24 17:07:42 x kernel: ad8: WARNING - READ_DMA UDMA ICRC error 
(retrying request) LBA=16
Apr 24 17:07:42 x kernel: ad8: FAILURE - READ_DMA 
status=51<READY,DSC,ERROR> error=84<ICRC,ABORTED> LBA=16
Apr 24 17:07:42 x kernel: ad8: WARNING - READ_DMA UDMA ICRC error 
(retrying request) LBA=0
Apr 24 17:07:42 x kernel: ad8: WARNING - READ_DMA UDMA ICRC error 
(retrying request) LBA=0
Apr 24 17:07:42 x kernel: ad8: FAILURE - READ_DMA 
status=51<READY,DSC,ERROR> error=84<ICRC,ABORTED> LBA=0
Apr 24 17:07:42 x kernel: ad8: WARNING - READ_DMA UDMA ICRC error 
(retrying request) LBA=512
Apr 24 17:07:42 x kernel: ad8: WARNING - READ_DMA UDMA ICRC error 
(retrying request) LBA=512
Apr 24 17:07:42 x kernel: ad8: FAILURE - READ_DMA 
status=51<READY,DSC,ERROR> error=84<ICRC,ABORTED> LBA=512
Apr 24 17:07:42 x kernel: Trying to mount root from ufs:/dev/mirror/gm0s1a

after some major lag and lock ups..

Apr 24 17:12:09 x kernel: ad6: 114473MB <Seagate ST3120827AS 3.42> at 
ata3-master SATA150
Apr 24 17:12:09 x kernel: ad8: 476940MB <Seagate ST3500630AS 3.AAE> at 
ata4-master SATA300
Apr 24 17:12:09 x kernel: ad10: 476940MB <Seagate ST3500630AS 3.AAE> at 
ata5-master SATA300
Apr 24 17:12:09 x kernel: SMP: AP CPU #1 Launched!
Apr 24 17:12:09 x kernel: GEOM_MIRROR: Device mirror/gm0 launched (1/1).
Apr 24 17:12:09 x kernel: ad8: WARNING - READ_DMA UDMA ICRC error 
(retrying request) LBA=512

then again major lag / lockup

Apr 24 17:13:44 x kernel: ad10: FAILURE - device detached
Apr 24 17:13:44 x kernel: subdisk10: detached
Apr 24 17:13:44 x kernel: ad10: detached
Apr 24 17:13:57 x kernel: ad8: WARNING - READ_DMA UDMA ICRC error 
(retrying request) LBA=16
Apr 24 17:13:58 x kernel: ad8: WARNING - READ_DMA UDMA ICRC error 
(retrying request) LBA=16
Apr 24 17:13:58 x kernel: ad8: WARNING - READ_DMA UDMA ICRC error 
(retrying request) LBA=0
Apr 24 17:13:59 x kernel: ad8: WARNING - READ_DMA UDMA ICRC error 
(retrying request) LBA=0
Apr 24 17:13:59 x kernel: ad8: WARNING - READ_DMA UDMA ICRC error 
(retrying request) LBA=512
Apr 24 17:14:00 x kernel: ad8: WARNING - READ_DMA UDMA ICRC error 
(retrying request) LBA=512
Apr 24 17:14:00 x kernel: GEOM_MIRROR: Device gm0: rebuilding provider ad8.
Apr 24 17:14:05 x kernel: ad8: TIMEOUT - WRITE_DMA retrying (1 retry 
left) LBA=9856
Apr 24 17:14:10 x kernel: ad8: TIMEOUT - WRITE_DMA retrying (1 retry 
left) LBA=11392
Apr 24 17:14:16 x kernel: ad8: TIMEOUT - WRITE_DMA retrying (1 retry 
left) LBA=17792
Apr 24 17:14:21 x kernel: ad8: TIMEOUT - WRITE_DMA retrying (1 retry 
left) LBA=23296
Apr 24 17:14:57 x kernel: ad8: FAILURE - device detached
Apr 24 17:14:57 x kernel: subdisk8: detached
Apr 24 17:14:57 x kernel: ad8: detached
Apr 24 17:14:57 x kernel: GEOM_MIRROR: Cannot write metadata on ad8 
(device=gm0, error=6).
Apr 24 17:14:57 x kernel: GEOM_MIRROR: Cannot clear metadata on disk ad8 
(error=6).
Apr 24 17:14:57 x kernel: GEOM_MIRROR: Synchronization request failed 
(error=6). ad8[WRITE(offset=11927552, length=131072)]
Apr 24 17:14:57 x kernel: GEOM_MIRROR: Device gm0: provider ad8 
disconnected.
Apr 24 17:14:57 x kernel: GEOM_MIRROR: Device gm0: rebuilding provider 
ad8 stopped.

the two replacement drives that i got failed to work.

took them home, ran short/long smart tests on both and they passed, now 
i'm at the office testing both of them and they seem fine.

i was running 7.1-p3 amd64.

so overall, this is what is happening.

one system is
ad4: 381554MB <Seagate ST3400620AS 3.AAE> at ata2-master SATA150
(giving me a million g_vfs_done) errors and i could link you to a pic, 
not sure if i'm allowed to so i will hope to see responses then do it. 
stuff like this "g_vfs_done() :ad4s1a[WRITE(offset=87081893888, 
length=16384)]error = 6"

another system
ad4: 1430799MB <Seagate ST31500341AS CC1G> at ata2-master SATA300
ad6: 1430799MB <Seagate ST31500341AS CC1G> at ata3-master SATA300
ad8: 190782MB <WDC WD2000JD-00HBB0 08.02D08> at ata4-master SATA150

smart shows both ad4/ad6 have read errors and some reallocated sectors, 
seagate says those firmware shouldn't be involved in their disgusting 
problems.

and the system that's giving me the hard time locally which i tried the 
two 500 gig drives in
it had two 120GB drives, both seagate. luckily i started using the 
second one last month as the main one just died or i think it died.

what are the odds that i'm having an unlucky streak with these new/old 
drives and it's NOT my sata controller? i've been having this trouble 
for a while now on BSD on one of them so i was forced to use CentOS 
(without issues) but i dislike it.

is there anything i could run? i have remote kvm access to the one with 
the g_vfs problems and the local one too but prefer not to break the 
local one.

is this hardware just too old for freebsd to support it? as far as new 
support cause it seems like it just barely works.

i guess i will get two western digital drives and try it on the local 
one next weekend.. i just need to figure this out asap.

thanks.
John



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