From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Dec 18 10:27:19 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 52FA416A4CE for ; Sat, 18 Dec 2004 10:27:19 +0000 (GMT) Received: from relay03.pair.com (relay03.pair.com [209.68.5.17]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D929443D55 for ; Sat, 18 Dec 2004 10:27:18 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from silby@silby.com) Received: (qmail 61135 invoked from network); 18 Dec 2004 10:27:18 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO localhost) (unknown) by unknown with SMTP; 18 Dec 2004 10:27:18 -0000 X-pair-Authenticated: 209.68.2.70 Date: Sat, 18 Dec 2004 04:27:16 -0600 (CST) From: Mike Silbersack To: Gary Corcoran In-Reply-To: <41C3D62D.7000808@comcast.net> Message-ID: <20041218042606.Q38974@odysseus.silby.com> References: <41C3D62D.7000808@comcast.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Multiple hard disk failures - coincidence ? X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 18 Dec 2004 10:27:19 -0000 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