Date: Sat, 18 Dec 2004 04:27:16 -0600 (CST) From: Mike Silbersack <silby@silby.com> To: Gary Corcoran <garycor@comcast.net> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Multiple hard disk failures - coincidence ? Message-ID: <20041218042606.Q38974@odysseus.silby.com> In-Reply-To: <41C3D62D.7000808@comcast.net> References: <41C3D62D.7000808@comcast.net>
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On Sat, 18 Dec 2004, Gary Corcoran wrote: > I've just had *THREE* Maxtor 250GB hard disk failures on my > FreeBSD 4.10 server within a matter of days. One I could > attribute to actual failure. Two made me suspicious. Three > has me wondering if this is some software problem... (or > a conspiracy (just kidding) ;-) ) Are the errors occuring at around the same block numbers? I recall a thread on -current talking about how some drives reported failures around the 133GB mark. Soren recently committed a patch to -current changing the point at which 48bit addressing is used to work around this. It may be worth investigating. Mike "Silby" Silbersack
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