James Andrewartha wrote:
kyle wrote:
Please cc me if possible.
I just built a new server with some seagate 1.5TB harddisks with mirrored
/boot and root partition , The system sometime degrade the root partition
with error message as follow, this happened 4 times within 2 days.
It appears that model of drive is broken:
http://forums.seagate.com/stx/board/message?board.id=ata_drives&thread.id=2390
http://www.techreport.com/discussions.x/15837
Apparently disabling the write cache is a workaround.
..
Heh, I wonder if there's been some firmware spying between Seagate and Hitachi..
because my two Hitachi 750GB drives can be made to have the same problem.
Triggers quite reliably (perhaps 1/5 attempts?) by running "hddtemp"
(to read drive temperature) during heavy I/O. Bingo.
I imagine the smartmontools would have a similar effect.
Cheers
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