From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Feb 26 17:18:37 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D92E310657ED for ; Thu, 26 Feb 2009 17:18:36 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bmettee@pchotshots.com) Received: from mail.pchotshots.com (mail.pchotshots.com [12.172.123.237]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4A4488FC20 for ; Thu, 26 Feb 2009 17:18:35 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bmettee@pchotshots.com) Received: (qmail 96739 invoked by uid 89); 26 Feb 2009 17:20:12 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO dev2.pchotshots.com) (bmettee@12.172.123.228) by mail.pchotshots.com with ESMTPA; 26 Feb 2009 17:20:12 -0000 Message-Id: <4.3.2.7.2.20090226121800.03935de0@mail.pchotshots.com> X-Sender: bmettee@pchotshots.com@mail.pchotshots.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.2 Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2009 12:18:35 -0500 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: Brad Mettee Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Subject: Re: disk/drive-bay problem X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2009 17:18:38 -0000 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 PC HotShots, Inc. Baltimore, MD (410) 426-7617 -> Let us bring out the *Power* of your PCs. <- -> Custom Business Software Solutions since 1991 <- visit http://www.pchotshots.com for information about our company.