From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Mark Lord Subject: Re: trouble with seagate 1.5TB - 2.6.27.4 Date: Wed, 05 Nov 2008 00:06:29 -0500 Message-ID: <491129D5.2070009@rtr.ca> References: <000901c93b0a$774ff3d0$b902a8c0@kyle> <491124AC.2030406@daa.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from rtr.ca ([76.10.145.34]:58235 "EHLO mail.rtr.ca" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750806AbYKEFFt (ORCPT ); Wed, 5 Nov 2008 00:05:49 -0500 In-Reply-To: <491124AC.2030406@daa.com.au> Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: James Andrewartha Cc: kyle , linux-ide@vger.kernel.org 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