Strange case of vanishing disk
Zane C. B-H.
v.velox at vvelox.net
Mon Jun 4 03:40:35 UTC 2012
On Mon, 04 Jun 2012 02:06:57 +0100
Kaya Saman <kayasaman at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> this is a very strange issue but I guess will either be related to
> 2 things, PSU not being powerful enough or disk controller simply
> being crap.
>
>
> Here's what's going on. I have a little Chenbro 4 disk mini-ITX NAS
> server with 2x 2TB disks and 2x4TB disks as storage - all spread
> out over 2 ZFS storage pools. Additionally I am running the root
> file system on a 40GB SSD.
>
> The strange thing with this is that I recently installed the 4TB
> disks and they're brand new.
>
>
> One disk connected to the system board works fine and shows up as
> online and on one of the channels using atacontrol list.
>
>
> The other disk is connected to a Startech.com Jmicron based 2x SATA
> RAID controller card.
>
>
> The disk connected to the controller card is having issues. At
> first the drive wouldn't be seen by the system then after a while
> all of a sudden it was there. No reboots, no io scans nothing it
> just appeared.
>
> After blasting it with IO for a few days the disk has now vanished
> again.....
>
> I had this error in dmesg for a while:
>
> ad4: TIMEOUT - READ_DMA retrying (1 retry left) LBA=113337535
>
> I have tried to use pciconf -lbvv to show the connected interfaces
> and the JMICRON comes up fine:
>
>
> atapci0 at pci0:2:0:0: class=0x010400 card=0x2366197b
> chip=0x2366197b rev=0x02 hdr=0x00
> vendor = 'JMicron Technology Corp.'
> device = 'JMicron JMB366 AHCI/IDE Controller (JMB36X)'
> class = mass storage
> subclass = RAID
> bar [10] = type I/O Port, range 32, base 0xd040, size 8,
> enabled bar [14] = type I/O Port, range 32, base 0xd030, size 4,
> enabled bar [18] = type I/O Port, range 32, base 0xd020, size 8,
> enabled bar [1c] = type I/O Port, range 32, base 0xd010, size 4,
> enabled bar [20] = type I/O Port, range 32, base 0xd000, size 16,
> enabled bar [24] = type Memory, range 32, base 0xd0510000, size
> 8192, enabled
>
>
> So why isn't the disk?
>
> I reckon as stated at the beginning that either the 180Watt PSU
> inside the system isn't enough or the controller is just really
> poor??
>
>
> Could anyone suggest anything to look into, I'm sure I've covered
> all the bases but just incase there is something else I can do with
> this one??
Greetings,
It looks like you are using the default ATA drive with that. I would
suggest trying the AHCI driver and see if that works better.
kldload ahci
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