Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2009 18:10:47 +0100 From: Roland Smith <rsmith@xs4all.nl> To: Richard Stockton <freebsd@richardleestockton.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: disk/drive-bay problem Message-ID: <20090226171047.GA93464@slackbox.xs4all.nl> In-Reply-To: <7.0.1.0.2.20090225173445.050d1ef8@adhost.com> References: <7.0.1.0.2.20090225173445.050d1ef8@adhost.com>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 05:59:58PM -0800, Richard Stockton wrote: > I have a Dell PowerEdge 4400 running FreeBSD 6.2 (yes, I know it's old). > This machine has 8 hot-swapable drive bays. Recently I purchased 7 new > drives for it (300Gig 15K) to replace the old ones (145Gig 10k). I was > able to successfully install 6 of the 7 drives, and they all work perfectly. > The 7th drive (actually the 4th drive-bay) gives lots of errors like this: > > g_vfs_done():da4s1d[READ(offset=261868847104, length=16384)]error = 5 One reason I've seen for this error is a bad cable connection. It could be that the connector between the drive and the bay is somewhat oxidised or dirty. Sanding the connectors might help in that case. Roland -- R.F.Smith http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated] pgp: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 (KeyID: C321A725) [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.10 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAkmmzRcACgkQEnfvsMMhpyUCdgCfaxXBGyUgfwLo9IZbZvisHmP4 NoQAn34UGoNhxgpSbNXjkbqrO/TVGPmY =QUZ7 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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