From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jun 2 20:13:25 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 5932C106566B for ; Thu, 2 Jun 2011 20:13:25 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from redtick@sbcglobal.net) Received: from nm1-vm1.access.bullet.mail.mud.yahoo.com (nm1-vm1.access.bullet.mail.mud.yahoo.com [66.94.236.28]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1A4758FC0A for ; Thu, 2 Jun 2011 20:13:24 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [66.94.237.198] by nm1.access.bullet.mail.mud.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 02 Jun 2011 20:13:24 -0000 Received: from [66.94.237.118] by tm9.access.bullet.mail.mud.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 02 Jun 2011 20:13:24 -0000 Received: from [127.0.0.1] by omp1023.access.mail.mud.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 02 Jun 2011 20:13:24 -0000 X-Yahoo-Newman-Property: ymail-5 X-Yahoo-Newman-Id: 470521.48712.bm@omp1023.access.mail.mud.yahoo.com Received: (qmail 2025 invoked by uid 60001); 2 Jun 2011 20:13:24 -0000 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=sbcglobal.net; s=s1024; t=1307045604; bh=3zVse8ZpmQHkZxL8vbQ6EMZMz83y78wAe54N0DuUZFo=; h=Message-ID:X-YMail-OSG:Received:X-Mailer:Date:From:Subject:To:In-Reply-To:MIME-Version:Content-Type; b=MP147wGNJOVUv4ZFtnT9am9JdT1VWDIeFLuY2uD8LGeZ3OcJan3w20rdYhLj8gc/WLyqt6Ok/v0VD4lzguDUZOo3utYymGZCeAfgVhH1uNDEQRa7I7suHqJZo/tGhP3e6zCotmXksur5sgkzhp5+qF8h20wtfaFo/PMw8QgrjNw= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=sbcglobal.net; h=Message-ID:X-YMail-OSG:Received:X-Mailer:Date:From:Subject:To:In-Reply-To:MIME-Version:Content-Type; b=pAMzTL1yfMTn1LB+hxtsfCo3PXVbIgBVsVsmOJZ0Xdvzm/BMJpsh6jyxpzSp414w3N9F/7Ao2TQNw6SV077joFvv+xO2jmW06Y26mYR8Msy/g4U/j3ZOsLEhKUvdJaZG8Ju1sE1qUZb1+p0JEY6PwwpeW+xDmqpHJ2uxire5zk8=; Message-ID: <249574.99100.qm@web81202.mail.mud.yahoo.com> X-YMail-OSG: 4FIZrwoVM1k5F4M9aG0.h5P9ZpTOCdr54wjLeZfGP.NN3V9 NYLeFFCE9oyvgRqVb01JsurnDHNJmAo2StnsYuDfzXDJij5q0uvHVs5HycnY Ssmo_dhF_7lOLSk0RgVyDE_gUTOD9.MnMxUCHQq8B.nyxqm_ljaY_dgdASJG Iv.FEQIwgr5g8MGbXS7c72CQMj.WsSZ5veNb1j_.Uf9cCOqXWV0IomWB4Km. oj5D1j8oXylN51BAxJ88mvoxeNosYYRYDMOeL.kTStx5Zd3IEYehuF.6Fwso GC.tCcTRQGNfaoDDBIN3ydeGZdU.6U7qLizFX325nd5cFzsJAwqhAqpTPd0W G2sxOktNq25yblQxfdtNl_FLjJYa5eRgt8jHH13Z9GaVuSLNRqMRX_PMhwj3 ZVbdlW12fTl7ATv_V Received: from [75.41.234.83] by web81202.mail.mud.yahoo.com via HTTP; Thu, 02 Jun 2011 13:13:24 PDT X-Mailer: YahooMailClassic/14.0.1 YahooMailWebService/0.8.111.303096 Date: Thu, 2 Jun 2011 13:13:24 -0700 (PDT) From: Mark To: help help In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii 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 20:13:25 -0000 --- On Thu, 6/2/11, Reid Linnemann wrote: > From: Reid Linnemann > Subject: Re: Critical issues with WD green drives > To: "Bruce Cran" > Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Date: Thursday, June 2, 2011, 11:02 AM > 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. My "duh" moment not too long ago. I found that the sata power "adapters" had pins that were to small for a proper connection to the power supply.