ada drives keep timing out!

[Francois Tigeot]

Hi,

On Fri, Feb 20, 2015 at 10:34:44AM +0000, Dr Josef Karthauser wrote:
> 
> I reported this last year, but I’d like to revisit it as it must have a software remedy. I know that I’m not the only one to have reported the problem.
> 
> I have a ZFS pool with a number of western digital drives in it (WDC WD1000FYPS-01ZKB0 02.01B01).
> 
> Periodically a drive times out with this error:
> 
> (ada2:ahcich2:0:0:0): Periph destroyed
> (aprobe0:ahcich2:0:0:0): NOP. ACB: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
> (aprobe0:ahcich2:0:0:0): CAM status: ATA Status Error
> (aprobe0:ahcich2:0:0:0): ATA status: d1 (BSY DRDY SERV ERR), error: 04 (ABRT )
> (aprobe0:ahcich2:0:0:0): RES: d1 04 ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
> (aprobe0:ahcich2:0:0:0): Error 5, Retries exhausted

Even though these are "green" drives, they are server models and shouldn't
timeout.

It's more than likely they have a buggy firmware. It happened to me with a
bad batch of RE-GPs a few years ago. They were in a ZFS pool and kept being
removed after I/O timeout errors.

Your nearest WD support person should be able to provide you with a fixed
firmware and the tools to flash them.

-- 
Francois Tigeot