Re: Ninth(?) Velociraptor replacement or md(RAID)/smartmontools(?)bug?

[Justin Piszcz]

On Fri, 21 Nov 2008, Justin Piszcz wrote:

> On Fri, 21 Nov 2008, Peter Rabbitson wrote:
>
> > It might very well be a WD bug. I had three (3) identical WDC
> > WD2500AAJS-08B4A0 drives fail on me with the same _identical_ error
> > (same sector number to the last digit):
> >
> > Oct 27 11:33:41 Arzamas kernel: ata6.00: exception Emask 0x10 SAct 0x0
> > SErr 0x80000 action 0xe frozen
> > Oct 27 11:33:41 Arzamas kernel: ata6.00: irq_stat 0x01100010, PHY RDY
> > changed
> > Oct 27 11:33:41 Arzamas kernel: ata6: SError: { 10B8B }
> > Oct 27 11:33:41 Arzamas kernel: ata6.00: cmd
> > ea/00:00:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/a0 tag 0
> > Oct 27 11:33:41 Arzamas kernel: res 06/37:00:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:06/00
> > Emask 0x12 (ATA bus error)
> > Oct 27 11:33:41 Arzamas kernel: ata6.00: error: { IDNF ABRT }
> > Oct 27 11:33:41 Arzamas kernel: ata6: hard resetting link
> > Oct 27 11:33:46 Arzamas kernel: ata6: SATA link up 3.0 Gbps (SStatus 123
> > SControl 0)
> > Oct 27 11:33:46 Arzamas kernel: ata6.00: configured for UDMA/100
> > Oct 27 11:33:46 Arzamas kernel: ata6: EH complete
> > Oct 27 11:33:46 Arzamas kernel: sd 6:0:0:0: [sde] 488397168 512-byte
> > hardware sectors (250059 MB)
> > Oct 27 11:33:46 Arzamas kernel: sd 6:0:0:0: [sde] Write Protect is off
> > Oct 27 11:33:46 Arzamas kernel: sd 6:0:0:0: [sde] Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00
> > Oct 27 11:33:46 Arzamas kernel: sd 6:0:0:0: [sde] Write cache: enabled,
> > read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA
> > Oct 27 11:33:46 Arzamas kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev sde, sector
> > 488166955
> > Oct 27 11:33:46 Arzamas kernel: md: super_written gets error=-5, uptodate=0
> >
> >
> > All 3 drives endured the same multiple rewriting of the sector in
> > question, as they did multiple smart self-tests. I am currently in the
> > process of replacing these two drives with Seagates, (the other 2 in the
> > 4 member array are Maxtors). Will see what happens.
> >
> > Peter
> >
> > P.S. See threads http://marc.info/?l=linux-raid&m=122523835815697 and
> > http://marc.info/?l=linux-raid&m=122669103213041 for more info on my
>
> Pete,
>
> Are these -new- 250GiB drives, recently purchased?
>
> # hdparm -iv /dev/sda
> Drive conforms to: Unspecified:  ATA/ATAPI-1,2,3,4,5,6,7
>
> What does yours conform to, just curious?

Update, the extended offline test completed without any errors:

SMART Self-test log structure revision number 1
Num  Test_Description    Status                  Remaining  LifeTime(hours)  LBA_of_first_error
# 1  Extended offline    Completed without error       00%       823         -
# 2  Short offline       Completed without error       00%       822         -

Running offline test now.

p34:~# smartctl -t offline /dev/sda
smartctl version 5.38 [x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu] Copyright (C) 2002-8 Bruce Allen
Home page is http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/

=== START OF OFFLINE IMMEDIATE AND SELF-TEST SECTION ===
Sending command: "Execute SMART off-line routine immediately in off-line mode".
Drive command "Execute SMART off-line routine immediately in off-line mode" successful.
Testing has begun.
Please wait 4800 seconds for test to complete.
Test will complete after Fri Nov 21 07:56:02 2008

Use smartctl -X to abort test.
p34:~#

We'll see what happens next..

Justin.

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