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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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