the drive has reallocated some sectors and normally drives should never reallocate sectors unless it has trouble reading/writing to them. also, that drive has known firmware problems so it sounds like the drive needs replacing On Feb 9, 2012 10:38 AM, "Mike Tancsa" <m...@sentex.net> wrote:
> On 2/9/2012 11:34 AM, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > > > > You will probably need to "track these drives" on a regular basis. That > > is to say, set up some cronjob or similar that logs the above output to > > a file (appends data to it), specifically output from smartctl -A (not > > -a and not -x) and smartctl -l sataphy on a per-disk basis. smartd can > > track SMART attribute changes, but does not track GPLog changes. Make > > sure to put timestamps in your logs. > > Thanks very much for having a look, and the suggestions. It think this > is the way to go to see which drive my have errors incrementing. > Alexander, is there a better way you can suggest ? > > > > > As for fixing the problem: I have no idea how you would go about this. > > Use of port multipliers involves additional cables, possibly of shoddy > > quality, or other components which may not be decent/reliable. > > > Possibly. Cables are one of those things I am happy to "pay extra for > better quality" but how does one assess quality of such parts. > > > > > Overall, this is just one of the many reasons why I avoid PMs, as well > > as avoid eSATA (especially eSATA). > > Yeah, at some point it doesnt really work with too many PMs, especially > if you cant query the thing to find out where things are "bad". I think > for the next version of this box I will use the newer generation 3ware > SAS/SATA controller > > ---Mike > > > > -- > ------------------- > Mike Tancsa, tel +1 519 651 3400 > Sentex Communications, m...@sentex.net > Providing Internet services since 1994 www.sentex.net > Cambridge, Ontario Canada http://www.tancsa.com/ > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org" > _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"