Re: Too many uncorrectable read errors with atang

From: Eduard Martinescu <martines_at_rochester.rr.com>
Date: Fri, 07 Nov 2003 15:07:46 -0500
If you are running -CURRENT, you can check the SMART status of the
drives with the port sysutils/smartmontools.  If the drive supports >
ATA-3 commands, you should be able to see if there are errors being
reported by the drive itself.

Ed

On Fri, 2003-11-07 at 13:33, Soren Schmidt wrote:

> It seems Kris Kennaway wrote:
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> > Since upgrading the bento package machines to -current I am getting
> > a lot of the following errors:
> > 
> > ad0: FAILURE - READ_DMA status=51<READY,DSC,ERROR> error=40<UNCORRECTABLE>
> 
> That does look like a valid error condition from the drive...
> 
> > 1) All my drives have performed mass suicide at once
> 
> You know, with deathstar's you cant really rule that out :)
> 
> > 2) ATAng is detecting errors that the ATAog did not
> 
> That is true, the error detection is better in ATAng.
> 
> > 3) ATAng is not trying as hard as ATAog to recover from the errors
> > from the crappy drives
> 
> Neither ATAog nor ATAnr retried uncorrectable errors...
>  
> > 4) ATAng has a bug on this hardware.
> 
> That we cant rule out, and it probably likely..
> 
> > Furthermore, I'd like to know why the panic occurred above.
> 
> Is this on a brand new -current ? lots of things that could
> cause this has been fixed...
> 
> -Søren
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Eduard Martinescu <martines_at_rochester.rr.com>
Received on Fri Nov 07 2003 - 11:07:49 UTC

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