From owner-freebsd-stable Sat Sep 8 8:42:50 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from marius.org (cdm-208-231-219-coll.cox-internet.com [208.180.231.219]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E73E237B408 for ; Sat, 8 Sep 2001 08:42:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from marius@localhost) by marius.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) id f88FhOj48212; Sat, 8 Sep 2001 10:43:24 -0500 (CDT) Date: Sat, 8 Sep 2001 10:43:24 -0500 From: Marius Strom To: ian j hart Cc: "stable@FreeBSD.ORG" Subject: Re: UDMA ICRC error reading fsb (?) Message-ID: <20010908104324.B1323@marius.org> Mail-Followup-To: ian j hart , "stable@FreeBSD.ORG" References: <20010906204356.A4116@nc.rr.com> <20010907180403.A1472@nc.rr.com> <3B994E08.FF3BE9C4@ntlworld.com> <20010907234848.A1323@marius.org> <3B9A1A08.539E25ED@ntlworld.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <3B9A1A08.539E25ED@ntlworld.com>; from ianjhart@ntlworld.com on Sat, Sep 08, 2001 at 02:15:52PM +0100 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG By dead I mean rapidly increasing numbers of bad sectors on the drive with every write. I replaced the cable to no avail. The hard drive had otherwise functioned well for ~7-8 months. UDMA ICRC errors started popping up ~2 months after installation, and then last night suddenly I was unable to hit a slew of sectors. HD was a WD Caviar 30 Gig. On Sat, Sep 08, 2001 at 02:15:52PM +0100, ian j hart wrote: > Marius Strom wrote: > > > > FWIW, I had this error and assumed it was cabling. I've spent the last > > few hours copying data of what is now a dead disk and putting it back on > > a new disk. YMMV. > > What do you mean by "dead"? The way I describe "dead" being able to copy > data off it is a neat trick. eg drive doesn't spin. > > What did you do about the cabling problem? > What hardware do you have? > > > > > On Fri, Sep 07, 2001 at 11:45:28PM +0100, ian j hart wrote: > > > Dave Uhring wrote: > > > > > > > > On Friday 07 September 2001 17:04, Randall Hopper wrote: > > > > > Dave Uhring: > > > > > |On Thursday 06 September 2001 07:43 pm, Randall Hopper wrote: > > > > > |> What do these messages mean? Are CRCs done by the IDE > > > > > |> controller on DMA transfers and they're coming up wrong? > > > > > |> > > > > > |> ad0s2a: UDMA ICRC error writing fsbn 3283483 of 396704-396713 > > > > > |> (ad0s2 bn 3283483; cn 204 tn 98 sn 49) retrying > > > > > | > > > > > |Your drive is dying. Back it up and replace it. > > > > > > I think you are being a tad premature. > > > > > > There have been plenty of posts on this subject, both on stable and > > > hardware. IIRC none of them were bad disks. > > > > > > Randall, > > > 1) post a copy of dmesg so we can see what hardware you have. > > > 2) measure the cable - M/B to drive. > > > > > > > > > > > > > Ok, thanks. But what do these messages "mean" on a technical level? > > > > > > > > > > And could these just as well indicate a marginal cable, bad > > > > > connector, loose connector, or the other hard drive on the controller > > > > > being a bit flakey? > > > > > > > > > > Randall > > > > > > > > CRC's (16 bit cyclic redundancy check characters) have been done on > > > > controllers since we had to use floppies. The first Winchester drive > > > > interface I ever designed back in 1979 had a Fairchild 9401 (IIRC) CRC > > > > generator chip on it. The writes are failing. You "may" have marginal > > > > cabling or loose or corroded connectors. > > > > > > > > If you wish to keep using the drive, replace the cable and in doing so > > > > your contacts will also wipe clean. > > > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message > > > > > > -- > > > ian j hart > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message > > > > -- > > Marius Strom > > Professional Geek/Unix System Administrator > > URL: http://www.marius.org/ > > http://www.marius.org/marius.pgp 0xF5D89089 *updated 2001-02-26* > > > > It is a natural law. Physics tells us that for every action, there must be an > > equal and opposite reaction. They hate us, we hate them, they hate us back and > > so, here we are, victims of mathematics. > > -- Londo, "A Voice in the Wilderness I" > > -- > ian j hart -- Marius Strom Professional Geek/Unix System Administrator URL: http://www.marius.org/ http://www.marius.org/marius.pgp 0xF5D89089 *updated 2001-02-26* It is a natural law. Physics tells us that for every action, there must be an equal and opposite reaction. They hate us, we hate them, they hate us back and so, here we are, victims of mathematics. -- Londo, "A Voice in the Wilderness I" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message