Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2012 21:38:13 -0500 From: dweimer <dweimer@dweimer.net> To: Adam Vande More <amvandemore@gmail.com> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Disk Errors Message-ID: <bdaade7aa18421d47f364b1308b1d0ea@dweimer.net> In-Reply-To: <CA%2BtpaK1jiRgO08%2BRkLwZYgBSNW9ob-TheD_OOkbx2qHuhZKoyg@mail.gmail.com> References: <d65bfc394e4b31d92bb6ab9e8d220d16@dweimer.net> <CA%2BtpaK1jiRgO08%2BRkLwZYgBSNW9ob-TheD_OOkbx2qHuhZKoyg@mail.gmail.com>
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On 2012-07-24 21:29, Adam Vande More wrote: > On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 11:40 AM, dweimer <dweimer@dweimer.net> wrote: > >> Just curious, I am sure the likely issue is a bad disk, but I thought there might be a chance this could be caused by possibly by something else. >> >> I have three 1TB disks I use for backup, two of them are Western Digital drives I bought specifically for this purpose. One is a Seagate drive that came out of a barebones PC that I replaced with a couple smaller drives in a stripe to gain performance. I use the drives in an external SATA dock, using geom eli encryption, the western digital drives give me no problems, but the seagate drive gives me a lot of the following errors under load. >> >> ad4: TIMEOUT - WRITE_DMA48 retrying (1 retry left) LBA=817755328 >> ad4: WARNING - WRITE_DMA48 UDMA ICRC error (retrying request) LBA=837397120 >> ad4: TIMEOUT - WRITE_DMA48 retrying (1 retry left) LBA=879786112 >> ad4: WARNING - WRITE_DMA48 UDMA ICRC error (retrying request) LBA=882931200 >> ad4: WARNING - WRITE_DMA48 UDMA ICRC error (retrying request) LBA=890542016 >> ad4: WARNING - WRITE_DMA48 UDMA ICRC error (retrying request) LBA=902767296 >> ad4: TIMEOUT - WRITE_DMA48 retrying (1 retry left) LBA=904071296 > > This type of problem has been a consistent problem on FreeBSD until mid 8.x range. Try upgrading your system to something a little more modern. > > -- > Adam Vande More Its running 9.0-RELEASE-P3 updated from source from an original install of 8.2 on this hardware. I have done the firmware update on the drive, so hopefully I will see an improvement in about 2 hours when tonights backups kick off. -- Thanks, Dean E. Weimer http://www.dweimer.net/
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