From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Jul 2 20:42:30 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from dastor.albury.net.au (dastor.albury.NET.AU [203.15.244.203]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6FAA637BF27; Sun, 2 Jul 2000 20:42:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nicks@dastor.albury.net.au) Received: (from nicks@localhost) by dastor.albury.net.au (8.10.2/8.10.2) id e633fxx63555; Mon, 3 Jul 2000 13:41:59 +1000 (EST) Date: Mon, 3 Jul 2000 13:41:59 +1000 From: Nick Slager To: Peter Philipp Cc: "Mustafa N. Deeb" , Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Invalidating PACK!!! Message-ID: <20000703134159.B61604@albury.net.au> References: <20000701212545.F26119@daemon.ninth-circle.org> <395E5946.527C8759@palnet.com> <20000702220243.B6510@dn.toronto.on.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <20000702220243.B6510@dn.toronto.on.ca>; from pjp@dn.toronto.on.ca on Sun, Jul 02, 2000 at 10:02:43PM -0400 X-Homer: Whoohooooooo! Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Thus spake Peter Philipp (pjp@dn.toronto.on.ca): > On Sat, Jul 01, 2000 at 10:49:11PM +0200, Mustafa N. Deeb wrote: > > well I think I've eliminated most of these things, I've the disks out of the > > server and made the cooler point the air to it.. > > and It does not look like bad cables... > > about the BAD hd, I've the problem on 5/5 new drives that I bought.. > > I'll try upgrading the firmeware and BIOS.. > > and see.. > > Where I work we have the same problem we were not however able to get rid > of this problem by elimination ie. we replaced scsi cable, scsi adapter > and like you we replaced the drive (same specs same seagate) twice with the > same results. We also added a fan for the drive noticing it became quite hot > with no improvement. Likewise here. We also changed power supply, to no avail. I had this problem with a 2940UW Pro, with Seagate disks - ST318436LW, and ST318275LW. These are 18Gb Baracuda (7200rpm) units. It was suggested I disable write caching, and this seems to have been the problem. Nick. -- From a Sun Microsystems bug report (#4102680): "Workaround: don't pound on the mouse like a wild monkey." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message