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Date:      Wed, 4 Apr 2007 15:45:22 +0200 (CEST)
From:      =?iso-8859-2?Q?G=F3t_Andr=E1s?= <andrej@antiszoc.hu>
To:        "Miroslav Lachman" <000.fbsd@quip.cz>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, andrej@antiszoc.hu
Subject:   Re: Sun Fire X2100 SATA problem [was - sun x2100 gmirror problem]
Message-ID:  <61061.195.70.43.76.1175694322.squirrel@duloc.webmedia.hu>
In-Reply-To: <4613A66A.50204@quip.cz>
References:  <58209.195.70.43.76.1175680466.squirrel@duloc.webmedia.hu> <4613A66A.50204@quip.cz>

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On Sze, Április 4, 2007 3:21 pm, Miroslav Lachman wrote:
> andrej@antiszoc.hu wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>>
>> We're using gmirror on our sun fire x2100 and FreeBSD 6.1-p10. Some
>> days ago I found this in the logs:
>>
>> Apr  1 02:12:05 x2100 kernel: ad6: WARNING - WRITE_DMA48 UDMA ICRC
>> error (retrying request) LBA=612960533
>> Apr  1 02:12:05 x2100 kernel: ad6: FAILURE - WRITE_DMA48
>> status=51<READY,DSC,ERROR> error=10<NID_NOT_FOUND> LBA=612960533 Apr  1
>> 02:12:05 x2100 kernel: GEOM_MIRROR: Request failed (error=5).
>> ad6[WRITE(offset=313835792896, length=4096)] Apr  1 02:12:05 x2100
>> kernel: GEOM_MIRROR: Device gm0: provider ad6
>> disconnected.
>>
>> Normally it looks like a disk error, but I think our half year old
>> disks (WD RE2) shouldn't fail after this short time. Of course they have
>> moving parts so they MAY fail. :( Yesterday I tried to reinit the sata
>> channel and insert the disk back into the mirror. I got this:
>>
>> Apr  3 23:00:32 x2100 kernel: GEOM_MIRROR: Device gm0: provider ad6
>> detected. Apr  3 23:00:32 x2100 kernel: GEOM_MIRROR: Device gm0:
>> rebuilding provider ad6. Apr  3 23:00:36 x2100 kernel: ad6: WARNING -
>> WRITE_DMA UDMA ICRC error
>> (retrying request) LBA=245760
>> Apr  3 23:00:38 x2100 kernel: ad6: WARNING - WRITE_DMA UDMA ICRC error
>> (retrying request) LBA=392576
>> Apr  3 23:00:38 x2100 kernel: ad6: WARNING - WRITE_DMA UDMA ICRC error
>> (retrying request) LBA=392960
>> Apr  3 23:00:53 x2100 kernel: ad6: FAILURE - device detached
>>
>>
>> After this, the disk disappeared from the sata channel completely.
>>
>>
>> The wierd is that we used the onboard nvidia-raid and the very same
>> error occured, but there was no report in the kernel the machine just
>> don't asked for operating system. Later I found out that the disk was
>> forgotten ~2 weeks before that reboot (data was ~2 week old on it).
>> Otherwise that
>> "forgotten/failed" disk was also half year old and was fine without a
>> problem.
>>
>> Is there anybody who experienced something similar with SUN X2100 or
>> any other servers running FreeBSD 6 and sata?
>>
>> Regards,
>> Andras
>>
>
> Hi,
>
>
> I can confirm your problem. I have same problem on one X2100 but not on
> the others. Currenty I have 4 X2100 machines, but only one with this
> strange problem. The problem is not caused by HDD it self, I tried to
> replace it with brand new and same error appears after few days. May be
> there are some problems with cables / connectors or something on
> mainboard. I am well known by problems with SATA(n) disk drives problems /
>  disappearing on this list and local (czech) mailing list. I had similar
> problems on ASUS boards with Intel chipsets... so in my point of view -
> there is something bad with SATA in general. I never had problem like this
> with old good ATA drives.
>
> I have not solution for this problem. Disk is OK after reboot for a few
> dasy or weeks... if there is somebody which can help with investigating
> this kind of problem, I'll be happy to cooperate.
>
> output of dmesg, smartctl, gmirror etc.:
> http://www.quip.cz/1/freebsd/sata-hdd-problems/2007-03-07_errors_ad6.txt
>
>
> Miroslav Lachman

Hi,

May I ask that when did you buy that machine with the problem and the
others? We bought ours February 2006.

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