From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 16 20:49:22 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.carracing.com (mail.carracing.com [12.24.160.15]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3C7CB37B423 for ; Wed, 16 May 2001 20:49:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bill@carracing.com) Received: by mail.carracing.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 5EC6A13134; Wed, 16 May 2001 23:49:50 +0000 (GMT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.carracing.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4FA8AF45B; Wed, 16 May 2001 23:49:50 +0000 (GMT) Date: Wed, 16 May 2001 23:49:50 +0000 (GMT) From: Bill Desjardins To: Ted Mittelstaedt Cc: Subject: RE: ida0: soft error ? In-Reply-To: <007001c0dc46$53dba960$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> Message-ID: <20010516233737.X23426-100000@mail.carracing.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Ted, sorry for the late delay in getting back to this. The drive was just swapped out as a hot replacement as it was the same size and I did not bother with the compaq ACU. after the rebuild, I still had the same errors and figured one more shot at a different drive just to see what would happen. after rebuilding and rebooting, all the soft errors went away and things are good now :) I suspect that the original errors with the first replacement were due to the rebuilding process as they still occured during the last hot-swap rebuilding phase. the first replacement drive spit out the errors after rebuilding, and I have verified as bad since I have since built other array configs with it on identical machines and it still shows the same errors. the second replacement has been working flawlessly since installation as I said with no soft errors. Thanks for your help. Bill -- Bill Desjardins - bill@carracing.com - (USA) 305.205.8644 Unix/Network Consulting - perl/mod_perl/SQL development http://CarRacing.com - Powered by FreeBSD/mod_perl http://www.FreeBSD.org - The Best OS money cant buy! On Mon, 14 May 2001, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: > How did you replace it? Did you just stick it in or did you run the > Compaq raid utility after doing this? > > Ted Mittelstaedt tedm@toybox.placo.com > Author of: The FreeBSD Corporate Networker's Guide > Book website: http://www.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com > > > >-----Original Message----- > >From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > >[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Bill Desjardins > >Sent: Sunday, May 13, 2001 10:10 AM > >To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > >Subject: ida0: soft error ? > > > > > >Hello, > > > >couldnt find a good answer for this in the archives, so here goes. > > > >I have a copmpaq 2500 with a smart-2/p array controller and 5 9gig > >drives. today the controller reported that one of the drives had > >an 'iminent failure' that was going to happen to one of them. I replaced > >that drive with another drive that has not previously given problems, and > >since installing it, I get tons of ida0: soft error. from what I did see > >in the archives, a soft error appears to be when the controller tries to > >write to the disk and is unsuccessful the first time, but a 2nd try > >works. Is this the case? if so, is it due to the new drive rebuilding and > >does that error go away after the rebuilding process? If it doesnt go away > >after the rebuilding process, where do I look to diagnose the problem? > > > >I am just getting to learning and using raid so any help or direction you > >can give is appreciated. > > > >TIA, > > > >Bill To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message