From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: James Andrewartha Subject: Re: trouble with seagate 1.5TB - 2.6.27.4 Date: Wed, 05 Nov 2008 13:44:28 +0900 Message-ID: <491124AC.2030406@daa.com.au> References: <000901c93b0a$774ff3d0$b902a8c0@kyle> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from quoll.daa.com.au ([203.17.251.1]:38984 "EHLO quoll.daa.com.au" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754508AbYKEEzV (ORCPT ); Tue, 4 Nov 2008 23:55:21 -0500 In-Reply-To: <000901c93b0a$774ff3d0$b902a8c0@kyle> Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: kyle Cc: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org 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. -- James Andrewartha