Re: ATA troubles

2011-07-25 Thread Andrea Venturoli
On 07/25/11 02:45, Jerome Herman wrote: At the beginning of June, I installed two WD 1TB Caviar Green SATA Just a shot in the dark : are your drives of the green kind ? Such as Western Digital Caviar Green ? Exactly. I disabled the idle timer though. Also since they are ATA drives make

Re: ATA troubles

2011-07-25 Thread perryh
Jerome Herman jher...@dichotomia.fr wrote: Jul 24 23:48:36 mydavid kernel: ad6: FAILURE - READ_DMA48 status=51READY,DSC,ERROR error=40UNCORRECTABLE LBA=1671887488 Jul 24 23:48:36 mydavid kernel: g_vfs_done():stripe/backup[READ(offset=1712012836864, length=131072)]error = 5 ... since

Re: ATA troubles

2011-07-25 Thread Jerome Herman
On 25/07/2011 08:33, Andrea Venturoli wrote: On 07/25/11 02:45, Jerome Herman wrote: At the beginning of June, I installed two WD 1TB Caviar Green SATA Just a shot in the dark : are your drives of the green kind ? Such as Western Digital Caviar Green ? Exactly. I disabled the idle timer

Re: ATA troubles

2011-07-25 Thread Andrea Venturoli
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

Re: ATA troubles

2011-07-25 Thread Andrea Venturoli
On 07/25/11 16:03, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: I fixed a similar problem -- involving a VIA 6421 controller -- a while back, by using atacontrol(8) to reduce the DMA speed from UDMA133 to UDMA100. Evidently it is possible, under some circumstances, for a device and controller to negotiate a

Re: ATA troubles

2011-07-25 Thread perryh
Andrea Venturoli m...@netfence.it wrote: On 07/25/11 16:03, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: I fixed a similar problem -- involving a VIA 6421 controller -- a while back, by using atacontrol(8) to reduce the DMA speed from UDMA133 to UDMA100. ... I don't know if this is really effective with

ATA troubles

2011-07-24 Thread Andrea Venturoli
Hello everyone. For those interested, this post is a sequel of: http://www.mailinglistarchive.com/html/freebsd-questions%40freebsd.org/2011-06/msg00018.html However, I'll summarize. At the beginning of June, I installed two WD 1TB Caviar Green SATA drives into an Intel-S5000-based production

ATA troubles

2011-07-24 Thread Andrea Venturoli
(Sorry for the previous post, I accidentally hit sent, while the messages was still unfinished). Hello everyone. For those interested, this post is a sequel of: http://www.mailinglistarchive.com/html/freebsd-questions%40freebsd.org/2011-06/msg00018.html However, I'll summarize. At the

Re: ATA troubles

2011-07-24 Thread Jerome Herman
On 25/07/2011 01:58, Andrea Venturoli wrote: (Sorry for the previous post, I accidentally hit sent, while the messages was still unfinished). Hello everyone. For those interested, this post is a sequel of: