From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Feb 18 13:31:31 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DC41C106568F for ; Thu, 18 Feb 2010 13:31:31 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from behrnetworks@gmail.com) Received: from mail-bw0-f224.google.com (mail-bw0-f224.google.com [209.85.218.224]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 653708FC17 for ; Thu, 18 Feb 2010 13:31:31 +0000 (UTC) Received: by bwz24 with SMTP id 24so115688bwz.13 for ; Thu, 18 Feb 2010 05:31:30 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=GT9LneQw8mD6IHztMnrVcjdO6x7BATMONcJyrXHmeLU=; b=m7juwH9JsBIxcu25FcaSvL5FhRFmPOjdO3ebOcx19nCru6iKwkBmeufzcgKzD3kWdY nEMV9wtBVuNGysM/jCi8eCCnRdTFdyo8yr1WaiuDwyryVLmNEzmEerXx6Tf6mpfoRB9i PVnye65ftPDQBbZ8K8slEawS0/yR80B9KSCqk= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=b7VHI1HCPZ23q+psmdULBrrWhTShgNufERCUq3YYyDN9ywuDhV4dDygKdk7W9gu4NJ 1BccIoCn6hhG82AIwUlBODRSIznQqHbZp7W4jeygYwe5Xhpe7Yr15JQbRQyw2aFqBCyE 7hQCJ376dclcQatOitHNKj+G9oG4XxffOzRe0= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.204.20.80 with SMTP id e16mr2573443bkb.72.1266499889518; Thu, 18 Feb 2010 05:31:29 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: References: <64aa03031002161803h667734cal4d668b9eb9c0a1a8@mail.gmail.com> <790a9fff1002161842g17de8ecfvf2cfa8c77f03c32@mail.gmail.com> <64aa03031002161849s7b66b9e3l727aafd2afd3d596@mail.gmail.com> <201002171840.41088.ken@mthelicon.com> <790a9fff1002171303u4b40a90cr626ef856efee473b@mail.gmail.com> <64aa03031002171416s128ff196y92a5be5a6abadeb@mail.gmail.com> <64aa03031002171949gdfbd99ci8eab7f29399cc011@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 18 Feb 2010 08:31:28 -0500 Message-ID: <64aa03031002180531n5e07e3bcj455ba09bdf5e293e@mail.gmail.com> From: Chris To: Matt Reimer Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: Scot Hetzel , Pegasus Mc Cleaft , freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Seeing the dreaded "ZFS: i/o error - all block copies unavailable" on 9.0-CURRENT X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 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: Thu, 18 Feb 2010 13:31:31 -0000 > Can you paste the exact error? Are you getting something like: > =A0=A0 =A0error 1: lba 32 > =A0=A0 =A0error 1: lba 1 > When I've seen the above sequence, it was due to a stack overflow (IIRC), > with the result that the loader would start a second time and barf out th= ese > errors. > The "large number" in the error might give us a clue as to what's going o= n. > If the number is really large, it might be an indication that your BIOS > doesn't reliably read past a certain threshold. ZFS writes a sort of labe= l > at the beginning and end of its drives; perhaps the loader is trying to r= ead > the label at the end of the disk and is failing (I don't recall whether i= t > tries to read both labels). > Matt Matt, Here's exactly what I'm seeing after POST: error 1 lba 179552888 error 1 lba 59243926 ZFS: i/o error - all block copies unavailable FreeBSD/i386 boot Default: zroot:/boot/kernel/kernel boot: error 1 lba 179552888 error 1 lba 59243926 ZFS: i/o error - all block copies unavailable FreeBSD/i386 boot Default: zroot:/boot/kernel/kernel boot: It may or may not be related, but I notice that while in this state my hard drive activity light stays on. Thanks, Chris