SATA 500Gb disk problem

Nguyen Tam Chinh chinhngt at sectorb.msk.ru
Sat Oct 28 09:53:05 UTC 2006


Hello,

We have some dedicated servers at layeredtech. Currently new SATA 500Gb 
drive was added to each server and we now noticed strange problems with 
all of them: all new sata disks failed under normal load (3-6 Mbit/s I/O). 
Engineers at data center replaced the drives but they failed again and 
again.
Do you have any experience in working with 500Gb or more SATA drive?
OS: FreeBSD 6.1-STABLE #1: Sun Aug 13 20:29:03 CDT 2006

And this is the information from dmesg of one of our servers:

ad4: 476940MB <WDC WD5000KS-00MNB0 07.02E07> at ata2-master SATA150
da0 at mpt0 bus 0 target 0 lun 0
da0: <SEAGATE ST373454LW 0005> Fixed Direct Access SCSI-3 device
da0: 320.000MB/s transfers (160.000MHz, offset 63, 16bit), Tagged Queueing 
Enabled
da0: 70007MB (143374744 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 8924C)
Trying to mount root from ufs:/dev/da0s1a
WARNING: / was not properly dismounted
WARNING: /home was not properly dismounted
WARNING: /tmp was not properly dismounted
/tmp: mount pending error: blocks 0 files 4
WARNING: /usr was not properly dismounted
WARNING: /var was not properly dismounted
WARNING: /var/tmp was not properly dismounted
WARNING: /mnt/sata was not properly dismounted
ad4: TIMEOUT - WRITE_DMA48 retrying (1 retry left) LBA=663885183
ad4: TIMEOUT - WRITE_DMA48 retrying (0 retries left) LBA=663885183
ad4: FAILURE - WRITE_DMA48 timed out LBA=663885183
g_vfs_done():ad4s1d[WRITE(offset=339909181440, length=16384)]error = 5
ad4: TIMEOUT - WRITE_DMA48 retrying (1 retry left) LBA=828848959
ad4: TIMEOUT - WRITE_DMA48 retrying (0 retries left) LBA=828848959
ad4: FAILURE - WRITE_DMA48 timed out LBA=828848959
g_vfs_done():ad4s1d[WRITE(offset=424370634752, length=32768)]error = 5
ad4: TIMEOUT - WRITE_DMA48 retrying (1 retry left) LBA=885960859
ad4: TIMEOUT - WRITE_DMA48 retrying (0 retries left) LBA=885960859
ad4: FAILURE - WRITE_DMA48 timed out LBA=885960859
g_vfs_done():ad4s1d[WRITE(offset=453611927552, length=2048)]error = 5
ad4: TIMEOUT - WRITE_DMA48 retrying (1 retry left) LBA=857331839
ad4: TIMEOUT - WRITE_DMA48 retrying (0 retries left) LBA=857331839
ad4: FAILURE - WRITE_DMA48 timed out LBA=857331839
g_vfs_done():ad4s1d[WRITE(offset=438953869312, length=16384)]error = 5
ad4: TIMEOUT - WRITE_DMA48 retrying (1 retry left) LBA=862600415
ad4: TIMEOUT - WRITE_DMA48 retrying (0 retries left) LBA=862600415
ad4: FAILURE - WRITE_DMA48 timed out LBA=862600415
g_vfs_done():ad4s1d[WRITE(offset=441651380224, length=16384)]error = 5
ad4: TIMEOUT - WRITE_DMA48 retrying (1 retry left) LBA=907763295
ad4: TIMEOUT - WRITE_DMA48 retrying (0 retries left) LBA=907763295
ad4: FAILURE - WRITE_DMA48 timed out LBA=907763295
g_vfs_done():ad4s1d[WRITE(offset=464774774784, length=16384)]error = 5
ad4: TIMEOUT - WRITE_DMA48 retrying (1 retry left) LBA=951794815


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