On Fri, 21 Nov 2008, Peter Rabbitson wrote:
It might very well be a WD bug. I had three (3) identical WDC WD2500AAJS-08B4A0 drives fail on me with the same _identical_ error (same sector number to the last digit): Oct 27 11:33:41 Arzamas kernel: ata6.00: exception Emask 0x10 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x80000 action 0xe frozen Oct 27 11:33:41 Arzamas kernel: ata6.00: irq_stat 0x01100010, PHY RDY changed Oct 27 11:33:41 Arzamas kernel: ata6: SError: { 10B8B } Oct 27 11:33:41 Arzamas kernel: ata6.00: cmd ea/00:00:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/a0 tag 0 Oct 27 11:33:41 Arzamas kernel: res 06/37:00:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:06/00 Emask 0x12 (ATA bus error) Oct 27 11:33:41 Arzamas kernel: ata6.00: error: { IDNF ABRT } Oct 27 11:33:41 Arzamas kernel: ata6: hard resetting link Oct 27 11:33:46 Arzamas kernel: ata6: SATA link up 3.0 Gbps (SStatus 123 SControl 0) Oct 27 11:33:46 Arzamas kernel: ata6.00: configured for UDMA/100 Oct 27 11:33:46 Arzamas kernel: ata6: EH complete Oct 27 11:33:46 Arzamas kernel: sd 6:0:0:0: [sde] 488397168 512-byte hardware sectors (250059 MB) Oct 27 11:33:46 Arzamas kernel: sd 6:0:0:0: [sde] Write Protect is off Oct 27 11:33:46 Arzamas kernel: sd 6:0:0:0: [sde] Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00 Oct 27 11:33:46 Arzamas kernel: sd 6:0:0:0: [sde] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA Oct 27 11:33:46 Arzamas kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev sde, sector 488166955 Oct 27 11:33:46 Arzamas kernel: md: super_written gets error=-5, uptodate=0 All 3 drives endured the same multiple rewriting of the sector in question, as they did multiple smart self-tests. I am currently in the process of replacing these two drives with Seagates, (the other 2 in the 4 member array are Maxtors). Will see what happens. Peter P.S. See threads http://marc.info/?l=linux-raid&m=122523835815697 and http://marc.info/?l=linux-raid&m=122669103213041 for more info on my
Pete, Are these -new- 250GiB drives, recently purchased? # hdparm -iv /dev/sda Drive conforms to: Unspecified: ATA/ATAPI-1,2,3,4,5,6,7 What does yours conform to, just curious? Justin. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html