Re: Updated on SATA drive problem
In the last episode (Mar 26), Anthony Atkielski said: > Chris writes: > > That's good news - I'm glad to hear that you are progressing with > > your issues. Once you have these items under control - you ought to > > have a more enjoyable experiance with whatever OS you wish to use. > > Now if I could just fine the problem FreeBSD has with my SCSI drives > on my test machine. I noticed that the pages and pages of error > messages I get sometimes when doing I/O to the disks are also > generated even by something as simple as "smartctl -a" which > presumably does not do any physical I/O to the platters. This would > seem to rule out any hardware problems involving the media, > actuators, etc. smartctl sends raw SCSI requests to the disk, and I think a recent change in either smartmontools or the scsi code is ending up with the wrong timeout value, so the request times out immediately. This happens to me when I launch smartd on all my machines, but it's intermittent and doesn't seem to affect anything (I get periodic temerature notifications after that with no timeout errors). See PR misc/73833 . -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Updated on SATA drive problem
Chris writes: > That's good news - I'm glad to hear that you are progressing with your > issues. Once you have these items under control - you ought to have a > more enjoyable experiance with whatever OS you wish to use. Now if I could just fine the problem FreeBSD has with my SCSI drives on my test machine. I noticed that the pages and pages of error messages I get sometimes when doing I/O to the disks are also generated even by something as simple as "smartctl -a" which presumably does not do any physical I/O to the platters. This would seem to rule out any hardware problems involving the media, actuators, etc. -- Anthony ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Updated on SATA drive problem
Anthony Atkielski wrote: > Today I ran offline diagnostics against the SATA drive that I suspected > of causing DMA errors and two system crashes. These offline diagnostics > confirmed a problem with the drive and eliminated FreeBSD as a source of > the problem. I replaced the drive and I'm watching to see if any of the > mystery errors in FreeBSD return (at this point I don't expect them to, > since it seems to have been a defective drive). > > It took a tremendously long time for me to figure out how to fix up the > new drive for use. I'm still not sure what I finally did that > apparently was in the right order and formatted everything correctly. > That's good news - I'm glad to hear that you are progressing with your issues. Once you have these items under control - you ought to have a more enjoyable experiance with whatever OS you wish to use. -- Best regards, Chris Keep emotionally active, cater to your favorite neurosis. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Updated on SATA drive problem
Today I ran offline diagnostics against the SATA drive that I suspected of causing DMA errors and two system crashes. These offline diagnostics confirmed a problem with the drive and eliminated FreeBSD as a source of the problem. I replaced the drive and I'm watching to see if any of the mystery errors in FreeBSD return (at this point I don't expect them to, since it seems to have been a defective drive). It took a tremendously long time for me to figure out how to fix up the new drive for use. I'm still not sure what I finally did that apparently was in the right order and formatted everything correctly. -- Anthony ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"