----- Original Message ----- From: "Mark Lord" <liml@xxxxxx> To: "James Andrewartha" <jamesa@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: "kyle" <kylewong@xxxxxxxxxx>; <linux-ide@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Wednesday, November 05, 2008 1:06 PM Subject: Re: trouble with seagate 1.5TB - 2.6.27.4 > 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 > Now I have to rebuild the raid everyday since every morning when I check out the mirrored root partition, one of the drives (not always the same) fails with the mentioned error. Strange the the 6x1.5TB raid 0 storage partition even down because of this. Kyle -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
