Date: Mon, 3 Jul 2000 13:41:59 +1000 From: Nick Slager <nicks@albury.net.au> To: Peter Philipp <pjp@dn.toronto.on.ca> Cc: "Mustafa N. Deeb" <mustafa@palnet.com>, Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai <asmodai@wxs.nl>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Invalidating PACK!!! Message-ID: <20000703134159.B61604@albury.net.au> 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 References: <CFEOIJDJKKPECJCHODEHKECBCGAA.mustafa@palnet.com> <20000701212545.F26119@daemon.ninth-circle.org> <395E5946.527C8759@palnet.com> <20000702220243.B6510@dn.toronto.on.ca>
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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
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