kyle wrote: > ----- 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. Yikes, I'll ask Seagate what's going on and post it on linux-ata wiki when I know more. Thanks. -- tejun -- 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
