On Wed, 16 Feb 2011 08:40:59 +1100 Eyal Lebedinsky <eyal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > In the end the problem turned out to be the disks. It seems that these > popular (cheap) disks have a firmware bug that causes bad writes if a > specific smart command is issued at the right (wrong) time. > > There is a fw fix but I found it not widely advertised. It can be found > here > http://www.samsung.com/global/business/hdd/faqView.do?b2b_bbs_msg_id=386 > Unfortunately it does *not* change the fw revision so you will not know > if your disk has the patch applied or not. I just applied it and so far > so good. My fw rev was (and still is) 1AQ10001. You are right. Here is the most comprehensive documentation on this issue: http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/smartmontools/wiki/SamsungF4EGBadBlocks -- With respect, Roman
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