Re: Seagate FreeAgent GoFlex 1.5TB external HDD problems

2012-07-02 Thread maxim naumov
ok, done some more testing and measured throughput FreeBSD vs. GNU/Linux as you suggested: # dd if=/dev/da0s1 of=/dev/null bs=1M count=1024 1024+0 records in 1024+0 records out 1073741824 bytes transferred in 33.181306 secs (32359842 bytes/sec) and # dd if=/dev/sdb1 of=/dev/null bs=1M

Re: Seagate FreeAgent GoFlex 1.5TB external HDD problems

2012-06-25 Thread maxim naumov
On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 4:29 PM, Denver Hull denv...@comcast.net wrote: storage device.  If you're interested, I can either send you the source, or make it available by ftp.  Might be easier than cobbling something up from scratch. Denver, that is very considerate of you. please do send me

Re: Seagate FreeAgent GoFlex 1.5TB external HDD problems

2012-06-25 Thread maxim naumov
failed with msdosfs in the same way: Jun 25 19:19:33 muxx kernel: g_vfs_done():da0s1d[WRITE(offset=39607370752, length=65536)]error = 5 Jun 25 19:19:33 muxx kernel: g_vfs_done():da0s1d[WRITE(offset=39607436288, length=65536)]error = 5 Jun 25 19:19:33 muxx kernel:

Re: Seagate FreeAgent GoFlex 1.5TB external HDD problems

2012-06-25 Thread maxim naumov
On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 4:00 PM, Hans Petter Selasky hsela...@c2i.net wrote: BTW: You could try to make a simple c-test program that reads and writes random LBA's from user-space, and see when it stops working. left it running iozone -a on the block device for the whole evening. iozone does

Re: Seagate FreeAgent GoFlex 1.5TB external HDD problems

2012-06-24 Thread maxim naumov
it took me a while to rebuild the world and reproduce the problem with usbdump running. there goes the bit of log around the point where it failed. ... 01:06:03.753907 usbus3.2 DONE-BULK-EP=0081,SPD=HIGH,NFR=1,SLEN=16,IVAL=0,ERR=0 frame[0] READ 13 bytes 55 53 42 53 7E 90 06 00 00 00

Re: Seagate FreeAgent GoFlex 1.5TB external HDD problems

2012-06-24 Thread maxim naumov
On Sat, Jun 23, 2012 at 7:51 PM, Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com wrote: So it's worth trying to disable power saving on that drive. sysutils/ataidle can do it, and can run from rc.conf:  ataidle_enable=YES  ataidle_devices=da0  ataidle_da0=-P 0 thanks Warren. I can't see how it would go to

Re: Seagate FreeAgent GoFlex 1.5TB external HDD problems

2012-06-24 Thread maxim naumov
On Sun, Jun 24, 2012 at 10:28 AM, Hans Petter Selasky hsela...@c2i.net wrote: Here is a quick analysis: LBA = 0x2FC2B95F00, COUNT=0x80 (64K) IIRC, LBA is a sector index. how can it be 0x2FC2B95F00 if the whole HDD has 0xAEA87B30 sectors? dd if=/dev/daX of=/dev/null bs=512

Re: Seagate FreeAgent GoFlex 1.5TB external HDD problems

2012-06-24 Thread maxim naumov
On Sun, Jun 24, 2012 at 12:37 PM, Hans Petter Selasky hsela...@c2i.net wrote: 2FC2B95F root@muxx:/home/muxx # dd if=/dev/da0 of=/dev/null bs=512 iseek=801290500 count=1280 1280+0 records in 1280+0 records out 655360 bytes transferred in 0.619988 secs (1057053 bytes/sec) no errors. tried

Re: Seagate FreeAgent GoFlex 1.5TB external HDD problems

2012-06-24 Thread maxim naumov
On Sun, Jun 24, 2012 at 2:33 PM, Hans Petter Selasky hsela...@c2i.net wrote: Ok, then it is not a USB host problem. I am not sure I follow. to me that just proves that the HDD doesn't have an irrecoverable error on a particular sector. by irrecoverable I mean an error that would stop the HDD

Seagate FreeAgent GoFlex 1.5TB external HDD problems

2012-06-23 Thread maxim naumov
hi everyone I am having problems with a recently purchased external HDD: 0bc2:5031 Seagate RSS LLC, FreeAgent GoFlex 1.5TB USB 3.0. the HDD would work fine for a while but then the kernel would lock up and require a powercycle. after turning off soft updates on that filesystem the lock up has