From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 19 21:39:13 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 01A9A106566B for ; Tue, 19 Jan 2010 21:39:13 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bsd4life@googlemail.com) Received: from mail-bw0-f209.google.com (mail-bw0-f209.google.com [209.85.218.209]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7AA7A8FC1B for ; Tue, 19 Jan 2010 21:39:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: by bwz1 with SMTP id 1so1998103bwz.13 for ; Tue, 19 Jan 2010 13:39:11 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type; bh=BWlA0LCXb1QDyev4YdxRL9nOlzPLz8xkvoLDgvySF+s=; b=ctfg0MNijak9Uq0s7f4H0XkqVdaQsXXVeVPSJUwJSf5BkDhMgW6FewoQWoj+6RgyEt eOwuM4hFE8qAKIv1Ztd6/eWC8DuDe+XUNK2dhZp6bU/6ROm6Xq3dUSMhlHmhLewZ8kbD PPrPa5sp2HiZwuMXTF4mGnGPm6/J2/ttcU+gw= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type; b=wcttEqm6Y27xNaT3CbMUkguggryiXuO0OxuvIIZp/YmFF/XSKwqACYme7aA/L79APo bLzqIyVjRh4y0JUZhlFhRuR7GqEoAEq+KnOx/IJ2fFgD1uTy9AWcZhwXQ7oZygToNjt3 /Xm0N28G00TfYv1V8IjbDMnT5m237Iu5uGBJA= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.204.25.208 with SMTP id a16mr4597633bkc.133.1263935712153; Tue, 19 Jan 2010 13:15:12 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <201001191250.23625.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> References: <4B54C100.9080906@mail.zedat.fu-berlin.de> <4B54C5EE.5070305@pp.dyndns.biz> <201001191250.23625.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2010 22:15:12 +0100 Message-ID: From: BSD Life To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Subject: Re: immense delayed write to file system (ZFS and UFS2), performance issues X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2010 21:39:13 -0000 2010/1/19 Daniel O'Connor > On Tue, 19 Jan 2010, Morgan Wesstr=C3=B6m wrote: > > The disks involved don't happen to be Western Digital Green Power > > disks, do they? The Intelli-Park function in these disks are wrecking > > havoc with I/O in Linux-land at least, causing massive stalls and > > iowait through the roof during the 25-30 seconds it takes for the > > heads to unload after parking. I have two of these disks sitting on > > my desk now collecting dust... > > There's this.. > http://www.silentpcreview.com/Terabyte_Drive_Fix > > and you can get the tool at.. > http://home.arcor.de/ghostadmin/wdidle3_1_00.zip > > I am planning to try this out tonight.. > > I just put my WD5000AACS (it has the same problem) in my Windows PC and d= id a SMART drive quick self-test with the WD utility (Data Lifeguard Diagnosti= c for Windows). I also tried this Idle Mode Updade Utility but it did not attach to my drive. So i put it back to my FreeBSD box (8.0-Stable) and recognized that I am no= t able to decrypt it anymore with geli. It keeps telling: "# geli attach -k /etc/keys/keyfile /dev/ada0 geli: Cannot read metadata from /dev/ada0: Invalid argument." A geli backup command failed with "geli: MD5 hash mismatch: not a geli provider?" I think Windows has messed up something on my disk, but a fdisk dump looks still the same as before: "# fdisk /dev/ada0 ******* Working on device /dev/ada0 ******* parameters extracted from in-core disklabel are: cylinders=3D969021 heads=3D16 sectors/track=3D63 (1008 blks/cyl) Figures below won't work with BIOS for partitions not in cyl 1 parameters to be used for BIOS calculations are: cylinders=3D969021 heads=3D16 sectors/track=3D63 (1008 blks/cyl) fdisk: invalid fdisk partition table found Media sector size is 512 Warning: BIOS sector numbering starts with sector 1 Information from DOS bootblock is: The data for partition 1 is: sysid 165 (0xa5),(FreeBSD/NetBSD/386BSD) start 63, size 976773105 (476939 Meg), flag 80 (active) beg: cyl 0/ head 1/ sector 1; end: cyl 316/ head 15/ sector 63 The data for partition 2 is: The data for partition 3 is: The data for partition 4 is: " Are there any things I could try or is all my data gone? Thanks in advance