Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2007 15:04:37 -0500 From: Doug Poland <doug@polands.org> To: Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> Cc: doug@polands.org, questions@freebsd.org, Bill Moran <wmoran@potentialtech.com> Subject: Re: Exercising ATA disks in hopes of revealing errors Message-ID: <20070418200437.GA52578@polands.org> In-Reply-To: <38DCF62F-9F0E-4DBB-9348-C782E5D182E0@mac.com> References: <52060.69.129.174.18.1176828969.squirrel@email.polands.org> <20070417130653.a07b6c1c.wmoran@potentialtech.com> <20070418193749.GB52435@polands.org> <38DCF62F-9F0E-4DBB-9348-C782E5D182E0@mac.com>
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On Wed, Apr 18, 2007 at 12:51:18PM -0700, Chuck Swiger wrote:
> On Apr 18, 2007, at 12:37 PM, Doug Poland wrote:
> >I just used the "Drive Fitness Test" for IBM ATA drives on a
> >particular disk and it finished without detecting errors. However, I
> >see messages like this:
> >
> >Apr 16 22:51:44 seth kernel: ad3: WARNING - WRITE_DMA UDMA ICRC > >error (retrying request) LBA=1904935
> >Apr 16 22:52:02 seth kernel: ad3: WARNING - WRITE_DMA UDMA ICRC > >error (retrying request) LBA=8029031
> >Apr 16 23:35:30 seth kernel: ad3: WARNING - WRITE_DMA UDMA ICRC > >error (retrying request) LBA=2269287
> >Apr 16 23:37:22 seth kernel: ad3: WARNING - WRITE_DMA UDMA ICRC > >error (retrying request) LBA=3612007
> >Apr 16 23:48:17 seth kernel: ad3: WARNING - WRITE_DMA UDMA ICRC > >error (retrying request) LBA=1932123
> >Apr 17 21:12:25 seth kernel: ad3: FAILURE - SMART > >status=51<READY,DSC,ERROR> error=4<ABORTED> LBA=12734209
> >Apr 17 21:12:25 seth kernel: ad3: FAILURE - SMART > >status=51<READY,DSC,ERROR> error=4<ABORTED> LBA=12734214
> >
> >Do the kernel messages indicate a potential problem with this drive?
>
> They seem to suggest more of a cabling problem or communications
> problem between the drive and motherboard than a problem within the
> drive itself. It could also indicate a problem with the ATA driver
> against your particular motherboard/chipset-- but without a dmesg or
> some hardware details, we can't do better than guess.
>
> >Whom should I believe, FreeBSD or the disk diagnostics tool?
>
> Both
>
Thanks for the response, I'm attaching a recent dmesg for this machine.
The drive in question is:
ad3: 8063MB <IBM DHEA-38451 HP8OA20C> at ata1-slave UDMA33
running on:
FreeBSD seth.xxxx.xxx 6.2-STABLE FreeBSD 6.2-STABLE #0: Thu Feb 22 10:19:42 CST 2007 djp@ammon.xxxx.xxx:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC-UNP-4BSD i386
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Regards,
Doug
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FreeBSD 6.2-STABLE #0: Thu Feb 22 10:19:42 CST 2007
djp@ammon.xxxxx.xxx:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC-UNP-4BSD
Timecounter "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz quality 0
CPU: AMD Athlon(tm) processor (1403.19-MHz 686-class CPU)
Origin = "AuthenticAMD" Id = 0x644 Stepping = 4
Features=0x183f9ff<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,MMX,FXSR>
AMD Features=0xc0440800<SYSCALL,<b18>,MMX+,3DNow+,3DNow>
real memory = 259981312 (247 MB)
avail memory = 244875264 (233 MB)
kbd1 at kbdmux0
ath_hal: 0.9.20.3 (AR5210, AR5211, AR5212, RF5111, RF5112, RF2413, RF5413)
acpi0: <AWARD AWRDACPI> on motherboard
acpi0: Power Button (fixed)
Timecounter "ACPI-fast" frequency 3579545 Hz quality 1000
acpi_timer0: <24-bit timer at 3.579545MHz> port 0x5008-0x500b on acpi0
cpu0: <ACPI CPU> on acpi0
acpi_button0: <Power Button> on acpi0
acpi_button1: <Sleep Button> on acpi0
pcib0: <ACPI Host-PCI bridge> port 0xcf8-0xcff,0x480-0x48f,0x5000-0x50bf,0x50c0-0x50ff,0x290-0x297 on acpi0
pci0: <ACPI PCI bus> on pcib0
agp0: <SiS 730 host to AGP bridge> mem 0xd8000000-0xdbffffff at device 0.0 on pci0
atapci0: <SiS 730 UDMA100 controller> port 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6,0x170-0x177,0x376,0x4000-0x400f at device 0.1 on pci0
ata0: <ATA channel 0> on atapci0
ata1: <ATA channel 1> on atapci0
isab0: <PCI-ISA bridge> at device 1.0 on pci0
isa0: <ISA bus> on isab0
ohci0: <SiS 5571 USB controller> mem 0xdc101000-0xdc101fff irq 11 at device 1.2 on pci0
ohci0: [GIANT-LOCKED]
usb0: OHCI version 1.0, legacy support
usb0: <SiS 5571 USB controller> on ohci0
usb0: USB revision 1.0
uhub0: SiS OHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1
uhub0: 3 ports with 3 removable, self powered
ohci1: <SiS 5571 USB controller> mem 0xdc102000-0xdc102fff irq 11 at device 1.3 on pci0
ohci1: [GIANT-LOCKED]
usb1: OHCI version 1.0, legacy support
usb1: <SiS 5571 USB controller> on ohci1
usb1: USB revision 1.0
uhub1: SiS OHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1
uhub1: 3 ports with 3 removable, self powered
pci0: <multimedia, audio> at device 1.4 (no driver attached)
pcib1: <PCI-PCI bridge> at device 2.0 on pci0
pci1: <PCI bus> on pcib1
pci1: <display, VGA> at device 0.0 (no driver attached)
rl0: <RealTek 8139 10/100BaseTX> port 0xec00-0xecff mem 0xdc103000-0xdc1030ff irq 11 at device 13.0 on pci0
miibus0: <MII bus> on rl0
rlphy0: <RealTek internal media interface> on miibus0
rlphy0: 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto
rl0: Ethernet address: 00:0a:e6:21:01:c2
acpi_tz0: <Thermal Zone> on acpi0
fdc0: <floppy drive controller> port 0x3f0-0x3f5,0x3f7 irq 6 drq 2 on acpi0
fdc0: [FAST]
fd0: <1440-KB 3.5" drive> on fdc0 drive 0
sio0: <16550A-compatible COM port> port 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 flags 0x10 on acpi0
sio0: type 16550A
ppc0: <ECP parallel printer port> port 0x378-0x37f,0x778-0x77b irq 7 drq 3 on acpi0
ppc0: Generic chipset (ECP/PS2/NIBBLE) in COMPATIBLE mode
ppc0: FIFO with 16/16/16 bytes threshold
ppbus0: <Parallel port bus> on ppc0
plip0: <PLIP network interface> on ppbus0
lpt0: <Printer> on ppbus0
lpt0: Interrupt-driven port
ppi0: <Parallel I/O> on ppbus0
atkbdc0: <Keyboard controller (i8042)> port 0x60,0x64 irq 1 on acpi0
atkbd0: <AT Keyboard> irq 1 on atkbdc0
kbd0 at atkbd0
atkbd0: [GIANT-LOCKED]
pmtimer0 on isa0
orm0: <ISA Option ROM> at iomem 0xc0000-0xcbfff on isa0
sc0: <System console> at flags 0x100 on isa0
sc0: VGA <16 virtual consoles, flags=0x300>
sio1: configured irq 3 not in bitmap of probed irqs 0
sio1: port may not be enabled
vga0: <Generic ISA VGA> at port 0x3c0-0x3df iomem 0xa0000-0xbffff on isa0
Timecounter "TSC" frequency 1403188470 Hz quality 800
Timecounters tick every 1.000 msec
ad0: 238475MB <WDC WD2500JB-00REA0 20.00K20> at ata0-master UDMA100
ad1: 238475MB <WDC WD2500JB-00REA0 20.00K20> at ata0-slave UDMA100
acd0: CDROM <CDA126802ISE/F1.02 00> at ata1-master PIO4
ad3: 8063MB <IBM DHEA-38451 HP8OA20C> at ata1-slave UDMA33
GEOM_STRIPE: Device gs0 created (id=505822328).
GEOM_STRIPE: Disk ad0 attached to gs0.
GEOM_STRIPE: Disk ad1 attached to gs0.
GEOM_STRIPE: Device gs0 activated.
Trying to mount root from ufs:/dev/ad3s1a
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