Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2009 12:18:35 -0500 From: Brad Mettee <bmettee@pchotshots.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: disk/drive-bay problem Message-ID: <4.3.2.7.2.20090226121800.03935de0@mail.pchotshots.com> In-Reply-To: <20090226171047.GA93464@slackbox.xs4all.nl> References: <7.0.1.0.2.20090225173445.050d1ef8@adhost.com> <7.0.1.0.2.20090225173445.050d1ef8@adhost.com>
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At 12:10 PM 2/26/2009, Roland Smith wrote:
>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.
Try to avoid sanding a connector.
It's better to use a clean pencil eraser and basically wipe off the
oxidation. After it's looking shiny, use a clean cloth to wipe off any
eraser residue.
Brad Mettee
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