deadlock or bad disk ? RELENG_8

[Mike Tancsa]

On 3/25/2011 11:37 AM, Steven Hartland wrote:

> I've raised this with their support as an issue with their areca-cli
> utility so hopefully they will fix. Alternatively maybe smartctl will
> add support for the areca under freebsd in the future.

Hopefully smartmontools will eventually work. It can be quite helpful.
For example, It flagged one of my Seagate disks having the following issues

http://seagate.custkb.com/seagate/crm/selfservice/search.jsp?DocId=207931
http://seagate.custkb.com/seagate/crm/selfservice/search.jsp?DocId=207951
http://seagate.custkb.com/seagate/crm/selfservice/search.jsp?DocId=207957

	---Mike


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