Disk Errors

Adam Vande More amvandemore at gmail.com
Wed Jul 25 02:29:36 UTC 2012


On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 11:40 AM, dweimer <dweimer at dweimer.net> wrote:

> Just curious, I am sure the likely issue is a bad disk, but I thought
> there might be a chance this could be caused by possibly by something else.
>
> I have three 1TB disks I use for backup, two of them are Western Digital
> drives I bought specifically for this purpose.  One is a Seagate drive that
> came out of a barebones PC that I replaced with a couple smaller drives in
> a stripe to gain performance.  I use the drives in an external SATA dock,
> using geom eli encryption, the western digital drives give me no problems,
> but the seagate drive gives me a lot of the following errors under load.
>
> ad4: TIMEOUT - WRITE_DMA48 retrying (1 retry left) LBA=817755328
> ad4: WARNING - WRITE_DMA48 UDMA ICRC error (retrying request) LBA=837397120
> ad4: TIMEOUT - WRITE_DMA48 retrying (1 retry left) LBA=879786112
> ad4: WARNING - WRITE_DMA48 UDMA ICRC error (retrying request) LBA=882931200
> ad4: WARNING - WRITE_DMA48 UDMA ICRC error (retrying request) LBA=890542016
> ad4: WARNING - WRITE_DMA48 UDMA ICRC error (retrying request) LBA=902767296
> ad4: TIMEOUT - WRITE_DMA48 retrying (1 retry left) LBA=904071296
>

This type of problem has been a consistent problem on FreeBSD until mid 8.x
range.  Try upgrading your system to something a little more modern.

-- 
Adam Vande More


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