From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "kyle" Subject: Re: trouble with seagate 1.5TB - 2.6.27.4 Date: Wed, 5 Nov 2008 13:47:06 +0800 Message-ID: <009c01c93f09$efc54bf0$b902a8c0@kyle> References: <000901c93b0a$774ff3d0$b902a8c0@kyle> <491124AC.2030406@daa.com.au> <491129D5.2070009@rtr.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from mail.southa.com ([125.215.237.177]:43871 "HELO southa.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1750884AbYKEFQR (ORCPT ); Wed, 5 Nov 2008 00:16:17 -0500 Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Mark Lord , James Andrewartha Cc: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mark Lord" To: "James Andrewartha" Cc: "kyle" ; 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