I am putting a new machine together and I have dual raptor raid 1 for the
root, which works just fine under all stress tests.
Then I have the WD 750 GiB drive (not RE2, desktop ones for ~150-160 on
sale now adays):
I ran the following:
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdc
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdd
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sde
(as it is always a very good idea to do this with any new disk)
And sometime along the way(?) (i had gone to sleep and let it run), this
occurred:
[42880.680144] ata3.00: exception Emask 0x10 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x4010000
action 0x2 frozen
[42880.680231] ata3.00: irq_stat 0x00400040, connection status changed
[42880.680290] ata3.00: cmd ec/00:00:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/00 tag 0 cdb
0x0 data 512 in
[42880.680292] res 40/00:ac:d8:64:54/00:00:57:00:00/40 Emask 0x10
(ATA bus error)
[42881.841899] ata3: soft resetting port
[42885.966320] ata3: SATA link up 3.0 Gbps (SStatus 123 SControl 300)
[42915.919042] ata3.00: qc timeout (cmd 0xec)
[42915.919094] ata3.00: failed to IDENTIFY (I/O error, err_mask=0x5)
[42915.919149] ata3.00: revalidation failed (errno=-5)
[42915.919206] ata3: failed to recover some devices, retrying in 5 secs
[42920.912458] ata3: hard resetting port
[42926.411363] ata3: port is slow to respond, please be patient (Status
0x80)
[42930.943080] ata3: COMRESET failed (errno=-16)
[42930.943130] ata3: hard resetting port
[42931.399628] ata3: SATA link up 3.0 Gbps (SStatus 123 SControl 300)
[42931.413523] ata3.00: configured for UDMA/133
[42931.413586] ata3: EH pending after completion, repeating EH (cnt=4)
[42931.413655] ata3: EH complete
[42931.413719] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] 1465149168 512-byte hardware sectors
(750156 MB)
[42931.413809] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] Write Protect is off
[42931.413856] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00
[42931.413867] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] Write cache: enabled, read cache:
enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA
Usually when I see this sort of thing with another box I have full of
raptors, it was due to a bad raptor and I never saw it again after I
replaced the disk that it happened on, but that was using the Intel P965
chipset.
For this board, it is a Gigabyte GSP-P35-DS4 (Rev 2.0) and I have all of
the drives (2 raptors, 3 750s connected to the Intel ICH9 Southbridge).
I am going to do some further testing but does this indicate a bad drive?
Bad cable? Bad connector?
As you can see above, /dev/sdc stopped responding for a little bit and
then the kernel reset the port.
Why is this though? What is the likely root cause? Should I replace the
drive? Obviously this is not normal and cannot be good at all, the idea
is to put these drives in a RAID5 and if one is going to timeout that is
going to cause the array to go degraded and thus be worthless in a raid5
configuration.
Can anyone offer any insight here?
Thank you,
Justin.
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