Re: IBM Desktar disk problem?

From: Matthias Andree (matthias.andree@stud.uni-dortmund.de)
Date: Fri Jul 05 2002 - 15:39:45 EST


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On Fri, 05 Jul 2002, Tomas Konir wrote:

> On Fri, 5 Jul 2002, Matthias Andree wrote:
>
> > On Fri, 05 Jul 2002, Tomas Konir wrote:
> >
> > > hi i have similar problem.
> > > No dead disks, but after two days testing tcq patches (on 2.4). I
> > > got the two ATA errors (smartctl said).
> >
> > *shrug* FreeBSD should have eaten some of those drives as well, it has
> > been offering hw.ata.tags="1" to enable DMA QUEUED for a while now.
> >
> > And yes, my deathstar DTLA307045 still works without a single broken
> > block, but never used TCQ beyond booting 2.5.17 once (no LVM -> not
> > useful for me).
> >
> > Another DTLA307045 died some days ago, it has never seen TCQ.
> >
>
> I have no broken blocks. Only two errors logged in S.M.A.R.T.

So what's the issue?

> I have no S.M.A.R.T. errors for one year ago. And after use TCQ there are
> two errors after two days. Is is normal ?

Are there any strong hints that TCQ caused these?

> Curently i not believe new IBM disks and TCQ. I'll wait for better disks
> and stable TCQ.

That's your liberty to choose. :-) (And I can understand the IBM part of
it.)



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