Another case of the vanishing disk

[cruxpot]

I was referring to enabling AHCI in the BIOS. Right now the disks are
in some kind of PATA or mixed mode and I do not have ahci_enable
enabled in the rc.conf. I don't know if turning that on will help or
not but it's something I could try.

On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 9:04 PM, Erich Dollansky
<erichsfreebsdlist at alogt.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Fri, 21 Mar 2014 20:54:30 -0500
> cruxpot <cruxpot at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I can do that but it was disk 4 this time. Last time it was disk 3 and
>> before that it was it was something else. That is why I suspect the
>> controller or AHCI more than the disks since they all have the same
>> error accrual.
>>
>> I could move the disks to the backup server and see if I get a drop
>> and check error rate there. That is an idea.
>
> yes, just change something. You can also move all disks. This way you
> see if the disks are the source of the problem. AHCI? If this would be
> the problem, there would be a very basic problem with FreeBSD or the
> drives.
>
> Erich
>
>> On Mar 21, 2014 8:23 PM, "Erich Dollansky"
>> <erichsfreebsdlist at alogt.com> wrote:
>>
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > I would test the disks in a different setup. Can you connect them
>> > to a different machine? Not in one go but disk by disk.
>> >
>> > Can you run the original machine just with one disk using UFS?
>> >
>> > As and example: I have here one disk from a broken machine which
>> > gives problems in my new machine. I do not think that the disk also
>> > got broken the moment the other machine died. So, I will keep the
>> > disk until I can use it in a different environment.
>> >
>> > With other words: strange things happen ones in a while.
>> >
>> > Erich
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >  On Fri, 21 Mar 2014 20:03:43 -0500
>> > cruxpot <cruxpot at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >
>> > > Well, it happened again five days after the first time. Does
>> > > anyone think that turning on AHCI in the BIOS and the rc.conf
>> > > options will help? BIOS has the latest firmware. Otherwise I am
>> > > going to start replacing hardware. Not sure if I will replace the
>> > > disks or motherboard first since it's so old (circa 2008,
>> > > A8R-MVP).
>> > >
>> > > On Sun, Mar 16, 2014 at 9:47 PM, cruxpot <cruxpot at gmail.com>
>> > > wrote:
>> > > > According to my logs the first occurrence was on July 3rd of
>> > > > last year but that is also as far back as my logs go. I have
>> > > > four logged incidents since that time with the most recent on
>> > > > March 13th, which caused my zfs pool to become corrupt thus
>> > > > bringing it to my attention. I remember this server locking up
>> > > > before that, but I didn't do much investigation and just cold
>> > > > cycled it. I did not really look into it until December which
>> > > > is also when I replaced the PSU and it did not solve the
>> > > > problem. It is possible it has been doing this since the
>> > > > beginning but I am uncertain.
>> > > >
>> > > > On Mar 16, 2014 7:23 PM, "Erich Dollansky"
>> > > > <erichsfreebsdlist at alogt.com> wrote:
>> > > >>
>> > > >> Hi,
>> > > >>
>> > > >> On Sun, 16 Mar 2014 16:29:43 -0500
>> > > >> cruxpot <cruxpot at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > > >>
>> > > >> > I guess I did shoot myself in the foot on buying these
>> > > >> > drives, but they were $75/each at Best Buy on a sale about
>> > > >> > two years ago and I thought it was too good to pass up.
>> > > >> >
>> > > >> so, you have the problems since two years then?
>> > > >>
>> > > >> Erich
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