From: "kyle" <kylewong@southa.com>
To: Mark Lord <liml@rtr.ca>, James Andrewartha <jamesa@daa.com.au>
Cc: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: trouble with seagate 1.5TB - 2.6.27.4
Date: Wed, 5 Nov 2008 13:47:06 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <009c01c93f09$efc54bf0$b902a8c0@kyle> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 491129D5.2070009@rtr.ca
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mark Lord" <liml@rtr.ca>
To: "James Andrewartha" <jamesa@daa.com.au>
Cc: "kyle" <kylewong@southa.com>; <linux-ide@vger.kernel.org>
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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-11-05 5:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-10-31 3:40 trouble with seagate 1.5TB - 2.6.27.4 kyle
2008-11-05 4:44 ` James Andrewartha
2008-11-05 5:06 ` Mark Lord
2008-11-05 5:47 ` kyle [this message]
2008-11-11 8:49 ` Tejun Heo
2008-11-12 1:14 ` Mark Lord
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