Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2011 14:52:10 +0200 From: Andrea Venturoli <ml@netfence.it> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: scottl@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ATA troubles Message-ID: <4E2D66FA.30102@netfence.it> In-Reply-To: <4E2D3F16.3000808@dichotomia.fr> References: <4E2CB198.9010601@netfence.it> <4E2CBCAB.1070209@dichotomia.fr> <4E2D0E26.9070608@netfence.it> <4E2D3F16.3000808@dichotomia.fr>
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On 07/25/11 12:01, Jerome Herman wrote: > Ok I must have been way more tired than I thought when I answered... :-) > A few things though, > WD Green have always been very problematic, in FreeBSD and elsewhere. I acknowledge that. However, I think I can live with some glitch, but what I'm experiencing seems to me far too much: such a drive might slow down, but this should not result in a kernel panic. > The problem you are encountering is not new, cf I know: however I only found a lot of reports, with no solutions. > http://wiki.freebsd.org/JeremyChadwick/ATA_issues_and_troubleshooting I've only looked briefly into this, but I'll read it carefully. Thanks. > Some people even think there is a cryptic bug somewhere in the ATA driver. That's what I'm starting to think. In case anyone is interested, now that I have a test box up and running, I'm willing to try anything fancy. > I now avoid WD caviar green completely. That's what I'll do in the future. However, I've seen posts reporting this kind of troubles with other brands too. > As for SMART test, > I would not believe them, SATA drives tends to silently remap bad > blocks, leaving SMART counters untouched. I know; I'll run WD's diag tools from time to time. > A long time ago Scott Long offered to help track this problem, you might > want to contact him and see whether he found something. I'm CCing him. bye & Thanks av. P.S. I tried updating from 7.3 to 8.2 and see if anything changed, but I still get the same problems.
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