From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Dec 26 19:43:34 1995 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id TAA00412 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 26 Dec 1995 19:43:34 -0800 (PST) Received: from tango.rahul.net (tango.rahul.net [192.160.13.5]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id TAA00389 for ; Tue, 26 Dec 1995 19:43:23 -0800 (PST) Received: from bolero.rahul.net by tango.rahul.net with SMTP id AA21564 (5.67b8/IDA-1.5 for ); Tue, 26 Dec 1995 19:41:41 -0800 Received: from RockyMountain.rahul.net by bolero.rahul.net with SMTP id AA04052 (5.67b8/IDA-1.5); Tue, 26 Dec 1995 19:41:37 -0800 Received: by RockyMountain.rahul.net id AA01488 (5.67b/IDA-1.5); Tue, 26 Dec 1995 19:40:59 -0800 Date: Tue, 26 Dec 1995 19:40:59 -0800 From: Pete Delaney Message-Id: <199512270340.AA01488@RockyMountain.rahul.net> To: rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com Subject: 4GB Seagate Barracuda (Hawk Replacement) goes nuts after a while Cc: karl@mcs.com, Peter.Delaney@eng.sun.com, jbryant@argus.iadfw.net, fnf@amigalib.com, bardhan@corp.megatest.com, hackers@freefall.FreeBSD.org, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, karl@mcs.net Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk Hi Rodney (et. al.): Seagate replaced the 4GB Hawk with a repaired 4GB Barracuda but I seem to have a problem after Solaris 2.4 (without any patches) has been running for a while but not doing anything. I suppose the nfsd is scanning the disk once per night but other than that it's wasn't doing much. It seems to get in a state where some SCSI reads are taking a few seconds. I shutdown openwin (took about 5 mins) and then ran format and scan'ed the disk. It was stopping at some sectors for as long as perhaps 20 seconds and then moving on. I can hear the drive makeing a lot of noise, kind of like the Hawk before it died. I suppose it's time to back up the drive, I fear this is going to require my replacing the drive yet again. For years I haven't had any trouble with my Micropolus 1.7GB and 1GB drives. My experience with the Seagate is leading me to believe I should avoid Seagate in the future. The drive is very well cooled, so it's not a heat problem. Any thoughts? -piet