From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Stan Hoeppner Subject: Re: understanding the cause of ATA failures Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2010 17:33:24 -0500 Message-ID: <4BA2AA34.70105@hardwarefreak.com> References: <4BA2A02F.7040200@gmail.com> <4BA2A27E.9040704@buttersideup.com> <4BA2A590.4030505@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from mo-65-41-216-221.sta.embarqhsd.net ([65.41.216.221]:45881 "EHLO greer.hardwarefreak.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751353Ab0CRWdZ (ORCPT ); Thu, 18 Mar 2010 18:33:25 -0400 Received: from [192.168.100.53] (gffx.hardwarefreak.com [192.168.100.53]) by greer.hardwarefreak.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id E7B926C3D5 for ; Thu, 18 Mar 2010 17:33:24 -0500 (CDT) In-Reply-To: <4BA2A590.4030505@gmail.com> Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org Is there a SATA backplane involved or is each drive cabled directly to the controller? If backplane, is it active or passive? Whose product is it? Is this a relatively new machine or has it been running for some months without problems until recently? -- Stan Ludovico Cavedon put forth on 3/18/2010 5:13 PM: > Tim Small wrote: >> Do the drives have any SMART errors logged? Any reallocated sectors? > > No SMART errors logged. > No reallocated sector for all the hard drives. > > Well, I forgot to mention another weired thing. This is what happneded: > * sdc failed and got removed from the RAID array (I pasted the log in my > previous email) > * sda got removed (no logs available) > * sdb got removed (no logs available) > > When I realized tha machine was down, I found that the *sdd* was giving > IO errors. So I had to replace sdd, but sda, sdb and sdc, who were those > drives that "failed" first, are working good. > >> Do you run smartd, or any other smart data collection? I've had a load >> of trouble with WD drives when smart data collection was enabled. > > No smartd running. > >> Haven't had time to get to the bottom of it, but I suspect a firmware bug. > > SATA controller firmware bug? > Do you think changing the controller mode from "AHCI" to "IDE" in the > BIOS might help to prevent these errors? > > Thanks for your answer, > Ludovico > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html