On Thursday 18 December 2003 05:49 am, Ion-Mihai Tetcu wrote: > On Thu, 18 Dec 2003 13:19:39 +0100 (CET) > > Soren Schmidt <sos_at_spider.deepcore.dk> wrote: > > It seems Ion-Mihai Tetcu wrote: > > > > Hmm, there has been some trouble with a certain model of > > > > Seagate 40G drives (bad firmware) so that might be something > > > > you could look into, otherwise I have no idea... > > > > > > Any info on that ? After all, as log as it works on win I will > > > have to be very convincing to change it, if that is the case. > > > > Not really, check Seagate support if an update exist for your drive > > ? > > Hmm... I assume that the 3.33 from ad0: <ST3120023A/3.33> is the > firmware revision, am I right ? We have hideous problems with this firmware version at work. The older firmware revisions are ok. The problem is much worse under 4.x than 5.x for us though, which makes it a bit harder to track down. I'm pretty sure rev 3.21 is another revision that we have problems with. 3.19 seems to work. So does 3.12. The really bizzare thing is that the corruption doesn't seem to be random. I did a fresh system install, did a cvsup, and got an explosion. The state of the fs was so bad it wasn't funny. I nuked it, reinstalled using the same CD/options/etc and did the same cvsup again. Again, boom! The really bizzare thing is that the fsck carnage was almost exactly the same, if not completely identical. The same block numbers were dup alloc'ed, the same directories trashed, etc. We've seen it on: Intel ICH4 and ICH5 AMD 8111 nVidia nForce3-Pro150 CMD 649 Serverworks CSB5. Also, it was significantly worse *before* ataNG went in, and its much worse on RELENG_4 than 5.x for us. Something else just occurred to me.. I think all the problems we've been seeing are on *fast* machines. (p4/xeon/amd64). I wonder if that is something significant? I'll see if I can confirm this. -- Peter Wemm - peter_at_wemm.org; peter_at_FreeBSD.org; peter_at_yahoo-inc.com "All of this is for nothing if we don't go to the stars" - JMS/B5Received on Thu Dec 18 2003 - 14:16:20 UTC
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