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Date:      Tue, 19 Jul 2005 11:22:01 -0700
From:      Jon Simola <jsimola@gmail.com>
To:        Tony Byrne <freebsd@byrnehq.com>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: ATA Woes.
Message-ID:  <8eea04080507191122225bd9ac@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <1591154927.20050719132119@byrnehq.com>
References:  <151574576.20050719103740@byrnehq.com> <1591154927.20050719132119@byrnehq.com>

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On 7/19/05, Tony Byrne <freebsd@byrnehq.com> wrote:

> Jul 19 13:01:48 roo kernel: ad0: FAILURE - READ_DMA status=3D51<READY,DSC=
,ERROR> error=3D40<UNCORRECTABLE> LBA=3D288810495
> Jul 19 13:01:59 roo kernel: ad0: FAILURE - READ_DMA status=3D51<READY,DSC=
,ERROR> error=3D1<ILLEGAL_LENGTH> LBA=3D288810495
> Jul 19 13:02:05 roo kernel: ad0: FAILURE - READ_DMA status=3D51<READY,DSC=
,ERROR> error=3D40<UNCORRECTABLE> LBA=3D288810495
> Jul 19 13:02:16 roo kernel: ad0: FAILURE - READ_DMA status=3D51<READY,DSC=
,ERROR> error=3D40<UNCORRECTABLE> LBA=3D288810495
> Jul 19 13:04:36 roo last message repeated 4 times

> I'm totally confused. I don't know enough about SMART to know whether
> I'm looking at real failing drives or some bug exposed by the
> interaction between drive firmware, hd controller and FreeBSD.

What I've recently learned the hard way is that desktop drives have no
place in a server. I've now failed 4 of 10 SATA drives (Maxtor and WD)
in 1U rackmounts, and am moving on to trying the WD Raptor SATA drives
(which claim to be low-end server).

--=20
Jon Simola
Systems Administrator
ABC Communications



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