From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Nov 7 12:07:49 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5BF7216A4CE; Fri, 7 Nov 2003 12:07:49 -0800 (PST) Received: from domain.crafts4life.com (roc-66-66-65-30.rochester.rr.com [66.66.65.30]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CFC3743FBD; Fri, 7 Nov 2003 12:07:47 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from martines@rochester.rr.com) Received: from localhost.crafts4life.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by domain.crafts4life.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id D1F993FF9; Fri, 7 Nov 2003 15:07:46 -0500 (EST) Received: from domain.crafts4life.com (localhost.crafts4life.com [127.0.0.1]) by localhost.crafts4life.com (AvMailGate-2.0.1.16) id 32069-20EEFA8B; Fri, 07 Nov 2003 15:07:46 -0500 Received: from firestorm.crafts4life.com (firestorm.crafts4life.com [192.168.1.53]) by domain.crafts4life.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1DDE93F9C; Fri, 7 Nov 2003 15:07:46 -0500 (EST) From: Eduard Martinescu To: Soren Schmidt In-Reply-To: <200311071833.hA7IXfgj010546@spider.deepcore.dk> References: <200311071833.hA7IXfgj010546@spider.deepcore.dk> Message-Id: <1068235665.3175.30.camel@firestorm.crafts4life.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.5 Date: Fri, 07 Nov 2003 15:07:46 -0500 X-AntiVirus: checked by AntiVir MailGate (version: 2.0.1.16; AVE: 6.22.0.1; VDF: 6.22.0.31; host: domain.crafts4life.com) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.1 cc: re@freebsd.org cc: current@freebsd.org cc: Kris Kennaway Subject: Re: Too many uncorrectable read errors with atang X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 07 Nov 2003 20:07:49 -0000 If you are running -CURRENT, you can check the SMART status of the drives with the port sysutils/smartmontools. If the drive supports > ATA-3 commands, you should be able to see if there are errors being reported by the drive itself. Ed On Fri, 2003-11-07 at 13:33, Soren Schmidt wrote: > It seems Kris Kennaway wrote: > -- Start of PGP signed section. > > Since upgrading the bento package machines to -current I am getting > > a lot of the following errors: > >=20 > > ad0: FAILURE - READ_DMA status=3D51 error=3D40 >=20 > That does look like a valid error condition from the drive... >=20 > > 1) All my drives have performed mass suicide at once >=20 > You know, with deathstar's you cant really rule that out :) >=20 > > 2) ATAng is detecting errors that the ATAog did not >=20 > That is true, the error detection is better in ATAng. >=20 > > 3) ATAng is not trying as hard as ATAog to recover from the errors > > from the crappy drives >=20 > Neither ATAog nor ATAnr retried uncorrectable errors... > =20 > > 4) ATAng has a bug on this hardware. >=20 > That we cant rule out, and it probably likely.. >=20 > > Furthermore, I'd like to know why the panic occurred above. >=20 > Is this on a brand new -current ? lots of things that could > cause this has been fixed... >=20 > -S=F8ren > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscribe@freebsd.o= rg" --=20 Eduard Martinescu