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Date:      Wed, 04 Apr 2007 17:52:24 +0200
From:      Miroslav Lachman <000.fbsd@quip.cz>
To:        =?ISO-8859-2?Q?G=F3t_Andr=E1s?= <andrej@antiszoc.hu>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Sun Fire X2100 SATA problem
Message-ID:  <4613C9B8.8090409@quip.cz>
In-Reply-To: <61061.195.70.43.76.1175694322.squirrel@duloc.webmedia.hu>
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Gót András wrote:
> 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

Machine with problems was bought at December 2006 (made at October 
2006), first machine was bought at summer 2006, next to machines leased 
earlier at 2007 (I don't know when bought / made)

Miroslav Lachman



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