From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jun 2 16:31:15 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 23066106566B for ; Thu, 2 Jun 2011 16:31:15 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from linnemannr@gmail.com) Received: from mail-iy0-f182.google.com (mail-iy0-f182.google.com [209.85.210.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DD1218FC0A for ; Thu, 2 Jun 2011 16:31:13 +0000 (UTC) Received: by iyj12 with SMTP id 12so1222651iyj.13 for ; Thu, 02 Jun 2011 09:31:13 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type; bh=RoJY54zyw/y+GzOGMYbPGS9ij385YTgn8dHSm8+Jtdg=; b=W4TAdUVDoVWiyDvMzqXATH2v2ZjbWz+x25FlaJWtJ7X2bxvrK7ogaeGC+tAD6DOWEV khGh/9dOl56QbDXvFEEGCuAu6+jhgBp9QfCLR4rPIlmiHhIf1zM4xC3poeCddLqfHZ8H XnO6V2vY/vnK24jpZn05W+GnsUoJKT34uMLUc= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type; b=goAeAcKK35d3tzxHHgz5niw7In4PmhRYAsEcV21QrrjqYoJtmKYeh1uj99Kw9BcnQ5 wKhkWD5WQfX2Q+oaSsZ93qEMbhSj/wBPcvO758RkDMuSW0udCOWihuOJI5mwTE/iqC6M CdUhzA64g8kjv9SD64U54Eot5DXOAVceYAUxw= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.231.181.98 with SMTP id bx34mr1008255ibb.161.1307030561449; Thu, 02 Jun 2011 09:02:41 -0700 (PDT) Sender: linnemannr@gmail.com Received: by 10.231.144.71 with HTTP; Thu, 2 Jun 2011 09:02:41 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20110602155452.00006775@unknown> References: <4DE77F01.1050900@netfence.it> <20110602155452.00006775@unknown> Date: Thu, 2 Jun 2011 11:02:41 -0500 X-Google-Sender-Auth: raZytZA7AHKKF1YVECCT28iMuDc Message-ID: From: Reid Linnemann To: Bruce Cran Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Critical issues with WD green drives X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 02 Jun 2011 16:31:15 -0000 On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 9:54 AM, Bruce Cran wrote: > On Thu, 02 Jun 2011 14:16:01 +0200 > Andrea Venturoli wrote: > >> In a server of mine (7.3p4/i386) I replaced a 1TB Hitachi SATA drive >> (which worked perfectly), with two brand new Western Digital 2TB >> disks. Now I'm having critical problems, ranging from the disks >> getting stuck, to the box rebooting. >> Those are not the main disks in the box, so they are currently >> unmounted; I wasn't even able to run newfs on them, since every >> process that tries to use these disk will hang after a while (and >> can't be killed either). > > I'd guess this is probably due to their overly-aggressive power > management. If you can, run wdidle3.exe from a Windows environment to > turn off the default idle timer. > > -- > Bruce Cran > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > I've gotten similar errors before with a failing power supply. After an electrical storm I started getting HD errors all over the place. I replaced drives, futzed with SATA cables, booted, rebooted, and when the machine got stable finally I just tried to leave it alone. Finally I bought a new atom board, thinking that some component on the mainboard had been killed by the storm. Problems persisted until my mini-itx case came in with a fresh (less powerful) power supply.