From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Nov 14 20:46:29 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6EF1C16A4CA for ; Tue, 14 Nov 2006 20:46:29 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from clay@milos.co.za) Received: from bart.milos.co.za (bart.milos.co.za [196.38.18.66]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EEABE44094 for ; Tue, 14 Nov 2006 20:39:28 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from clay@milos.co.za) Received: (qmail 98017 invoked by uid 89); 14 Nov 2006 20:39:13 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO claylaptop) (clay@milos.za.net@192.168.3.150) by bart.milos.co.za with SMTP; 14 Nov 2006 20:39:13 -0000 Message-ID: <010901c7082c$e9113230$9603a8c0@claylaptop> From: "Clayton Milos" To: References: <17754.8258.37357.575054@satchel.alerce.com> Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2006 22:38:58 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.2869 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2962 Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: help identifying gmirror, ata, or motherboard problem (Tyan S2865G2NR) 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, 14 Nov 2006 20:46:29 -0000 Some advice here from a guy that's been doing professional data recovery for years... Don't touch Maxtor. Ever. Luckily Fujitsu don't make ide drives any more. They were worse than Maxtor. If you have existing Maxtor dirves and can't change them make sure you keep them as cool as possible. I would recommend Western Digital or Seagate for IDE drives. Western Digital make RAID edition drives which are very fast and reliable which I personally favour for these kind of situations and they only cost a bit more. -Clay ----- Original Message ----- From: "George Hartzell" To: Sent: Tuesday, November 14, 2006 10:00 PM Subject: help identifying gmirror, ata,or motherboard problem (Tyan S2865G2NR) > > I'm having a problem with a machine that I support and would like some > feedback. > > The system was built up from a barebones Transport PX22, which uses a > Tyan S2865G2NR motherboard. > > It has two drives: > > ad4: 286188MB at ata2-master SATA300 > ad6: 286188MB at ata3-master SATA300 > > A while back I noticed in the daily periodic report that gmirror had > dropped ad4. We rebooted and got things going again and it ran > smoothly for a month or so, then dropped it again. > > At that point we did a warranty replacement of ad4 and things have > been running smoothly for a couple of months. > > A few days ago gmirror kicked ad6 out of the raid, which the following > lines in dmesg: > > ad6: FAILURE - device detached > subdisk6: detached > ad6: detached > GEOM_MIRROR: Device gm0s1: provider ad6s1 disconnected. > > We're adding an external device into the mirror and are planning to do > a warranty swap on this drive too. > > The system is running, but feels sluggish. It might be interesting to > note that the disk activity light is continuously lit. > > The system if running the stock 6.1 RELEASE. > > FreeBSD foo.com 6.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE #0: Sun May 7 04:15:57 > UTC 2006 root@bloom.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/SMP amd64 > > I'm trying to figure out if we've just gotten two lousy disks, or if > there might be a driver or motherboard issue. > > Does any of this ring any bells? > > I'm suggesting that we upgrade to the tip of the stable tree, but the > owner's not convinced. I can't tell if there's been anything relevant > in the stable release that might address this (aside from all the > other great stuff that's in there). > > Thanks for any input, > > g. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >