Disk problems?

Ted Mittelstaedt tedm at toybox.placo.com
Fri May 11 16:46:34 UTC 2007


check to see if the drive mfgr has a firmware update for your disks

Ted

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
> [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org]On Behalf Of Jack Barnett
> Sent: Wednesday, May 09, 2007 1:15 AM
> To: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
> Subject: Re: Disk problems?
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> hrm... ?
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> Doing it again:
> > twa0: INFO: (0x04: 0x000B): Rebuild started: unit=0
> > twa0: ERROR: (0x04: 0x003A): Drive power on reset detected: port=0
> > twa0: ERROR: (0x04: 0x003A): Drive power on reset detected: port=1
> > twa0: ERROR: (0x04: 0x003A): Drive power on reset detected: port=0
> > twa0: ERROR: (0x04: 0x003A): Drive power on reset detected: port=1
> > twa0: INFO: (0x04: 0x0005): Rebuild completed: unit=0
> > twa0: ERROR: (0x04: 0x003A): Drive power on reset detected: port=0
> > twa0: ERROR: (0x04: 0x0002): Degraded unit: unit=0, port=0
> > twa0: ERROR: (0x04: 0x0009): Drive timeout detected: port=1
> > twa0: ERROR: (0x04: 0x003A): Drive power on reset detected: port=1
> > twa0: ERROR: (0x04: 0x000A): Drive error detected: unit=0, port=1
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> now says both disks are having problems (I removed the other two disks
> and just keeping the two root drives in array unit 1):
> 
> Unit     UnitType  Status         %RCmpl  %V/I/M  Port  Stripe  Size(GB)
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> u0       RAID-1    DEGRADED*      -       -       -     -       74.4951
> u0-0     DISK      WARNING        -       -       p1    -       74.4951
> u0-1     DISK      DEGRADED       -       -       p0    -       74.4951
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> What the ?
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> I tested both of these under WinXP and they come up fine.  No errors,
> nothing when running windows.  Under FreeBSD, it throws those errors
> above and then sets them degraded (and then the bios flags them on
> reboot) - but if I run windows, it never flags them and everything is
> fine.
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> Another thing I noticed is that under FreeBSD the drives will starts
> "clicking" and making god awful noises, really loud clicking like the
> heads are jerking back and forth really fast.  Doesn't happen in
> windows, they run really quite and smooth.  Is this some sort of bad
> driver messing up my disks?  I don't know what the hell it's doing to
> my drives, but it sounds god awful... I have it booted in windows now
> and it doesn't do that.  I've never seen this before.
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> Why does it keep clicking my drives like that and why is it throwing
> errors?  I've rebuild this array about a half dozen times already.
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> I synced to 6.2 rel and rebuild both kernel and world, but something
> doesn't seem right :(
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> On 5/7/07, Jack Barnett <jackbarnett at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > I have a 3ware (AMCC) 9500S-4LP RAID card and 4 disks in 2 
> Mirror 1 arrays:
> > Unit 1: 2 x 80 gigs
> > Unit 2: 2 x 400 gigs
> >
> > Under windows this was working fine.  Both disks where 
> "healthy" and running (I could test this by unplugging one or the other):
> >
> > Under FreeBSD though, it says it's not working:
> > May  7 13:57:37 fire kernel: twa0: INFO: (0x04: 0x000B): 
> Rebuild started: unit=0
> > May  7 13:57:37 fire kernel: twa0: INFO: (0x04: 0x000B): 
> Rebuild started: unit=1
> > May  7 13:57:48 fire kernel: twa0: ERROR: (0x04: 0x003A): Drive 
> power on reset detected: port=0
> >
> > The rebuild message is fine, but keeps getting "Drive power on 
> reset detected: port=0"
> >
> > In the 3ware BIOS, it shows all drives as "active" (ie. powered 
> on and connected), so don't know why the kernel thinks it's 
> powered down?  Does it mean something else?
> >
> > If I just "wait" for about 20 minutes, the drives start rebuilding:
> >
> > Unit  UnitType  Status         %RCmpl  %V/I/M  Stripe  Size(GB) 
>  Cache  AVrfy
> > 
> ------------------------------------------------------------------
> ------------
> > u0    RAID-1    REBUILDING     37      -       -       74.4951  
>  OFF    OFF
> > u1    RAID-1    REBUILDING     13      -       -       372.519  
>  OFF    OFF
> >
> >
> > (it's in Unit one above, 37% complete).  So even though it's 
> getting this "Drive power on reset detected" it eventually 
> rebuilds it's self. ?
> >
> > Any ideas what this message means?  I thought it was an error, 
> but seems fine since it's rebuilding it's self. ?
> >
> > Thanks.
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