deadlock or bad disk ? RELENG_8

[Mike Tancsa]

On 3/25/2011 9:28 PM, Steven Hartland wrote:
> 
> Interesting, camcontrol reports the following, so does that indicate it
> may be possible to do this:
> camcontrol devlist
> <Areca ARC-1220-VOL#00 R001>       at scbus0 target 0 lun 0 (da0,pass0)
> <Areca RAID controller R001>       at scbus0 target 16 lun 0 (pass1)
> 
> The suspected failing disk will be back in the office next week so
> we'll have a look and see what smart reports and post it.

It does get some info from the controller, but not the individual disks

 smartctl -a /dev/da0
smartctl 5.40 2010-10-16 r3189 [FreeBSD 8.2-PRERELEASE amd64] (local build)
Copyright (C) 2002-10 by Bruce Allen, http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net

Device: Areca    usrvar           Version: R001
Serial number: 0000002992326304
Device type: disk
Transport protocol: Fibre channel (FCP-2)
Local Time is: Fri Mar 25 21:50:19 2011 EDT
Device supports SMART and is Enabled
Temperature Warning Disabled or Not Supported
SMART Health Status: OK

Current Drive Temperature:     30 C
Drive Trip Temperature:        25 C
Manufactured in week 30 of year 2002
Specified cycle count over device lifetime:  4278190080
Accumulated start-stop cycles:  256
Elements in grown defect list: 0

Error counter log:
           Errors Corrected by           Total   Correction
Gigabytes    Total
               ECC          rereads/    errors   algorithm
processed    uncorrected
           fast | delayed   rewrites  corrected  invocations   [10^9
bytes]  errors
read:          0        0         0         0          0          0.000
          0
write:         0        0         0         0          0          0.000
          0

Non-medium error count:        0
Device does not support Self Test logging


> 
> Currently the machine is now stable but its had ram replaced and this
> disk pulled so its not clear which solved the problem but at least its
> seems to be stable once again which is what really counts :)

On my card, I found the following firmware versions work quite well.

CLI> sys info
The System Information
===========================================
Main Processor     : 500MHz
CPU ICache Size    : 32KB
CPU DCache Size    : 32KB
CPU SCache Size    : 0KB
System Memory      : 128MB/333MHz/ECC
Firmware Version   : V1.44 2008-2-1
BOOT ROM Version   : V1.44 2008-1-28
Serial Number      : Y529CAAGAR000375
Controller Name    : ARC-1210
===========================================
GuiErrMsg<0x00>: Success.


	---Mike

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