From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 29 15:57:38 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DD82316A408 for ; Thu, 29 Mar 2007 15:57:38 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from web@3dresearch.com) Received: from smtp.3dresearch.com (dorabella.3dresearch.com [66.167.251.2]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AFAC613C465 for ; Thu, 29 Mar 2007 15:57:38 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from web@3dresearch.com) Received: by smtp.3dresearch.com (Postfix, from userid 33) id 097BAA75EC; Thu, 29 Mar 2007 11:13:01 -0400 (EDT) To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from 209.195.153.252 (auth. user janos@imap.3dresearch.com) by vmail.3dresearch.com with HTTP; Thu, 29 Mar 2007 10:13:01 -0500 X-IlohaMail-Blah: janos@imap.3dresearch.com X-IlohaMail-Method: mail() [mem] X-IlohaMail-Dummy: moo X-Mailer: IlohaMail/0.8.14 (On: vmail.3dresearch.com) Message-ID: From: "Janos Dohanics" Bounce-To: "Janos Dohanics" Errors-To: "Janos Dohanics" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2007 11:13:01 -0400 (EDT) Subject: Is this a hard drive crash? 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, 29 Mar 2007 15:57:39 -0000 I have a FreeBSD 6.2-STABLE system with 2 gmirrors. The gmirrors are arranged as gm0 consisting of ad0 and ad2 and gm1 consisting of ad1 and ad3. gm0 has the / partition. This system has crashed a couple of times recently. I got messages like these on the terminal: ad0: SETFEATURES ENABLE RCACHE taskqueue timeout - completing request directly ad0: SETFEATURES ENABLE WCACHE taskqueue timeout - completing request directly ad0: SET_MULTI taskqueue timeout - completing request directly ad0: FAILURE - WRITE_DMA timed out LBA=3D3956063 panic: initiate_write_inodeblock_ufs2: already started Upon reboot, gm0 could not find it's component ad2, but I could rebuild the RAID after forget/insert. I also ran the Seagate drive utility which found no problems with the drive. When the same kind of crash happened again, I thought the problem may be the IDE controller, I have replaced the motherboard. Now it crashed again with the new motherboard - and I don't know what should I do next: should I just replace an apparently good hard drive? Also, if this is just a hard drive crash, shouldn't the system keep going? Janos Dohanics