Messages in this thread | | | From | "R. J. Wysocki" <> | Subject | Re: SATA 3112 errors on 2.6.7 | Date | Sat, 19 Jun 2004 00:18:03 +0200 |
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On Friday 18 of June 2004 18:28, Ricky Beam wrote: > On Fri, 18 Jun 2004, Matthias Urlichs wrote: > >>>Current sda: sense key Medium Error > >> > >>There's likely nothing wrong with your drives. Something about that > >>driver and the hardware aren't playing nice. > > > >What does the drive's SMART error log report? > > No errors. > > >I would consider swapping the power supply. Last year I had *four* 120 GB > >drives fail on me before I changed the thing. Zero problems since. > > Moral: stop buying crappy power supplies. :-) > > My power supply is fine. If the PS were at fault, the same thing would > be happening all the time, not just when linux tries to throw 200 sectors > at a time at the drives. Windows has been stressing these drives far more > than linux and there's been zero idication of any problems. As I said, > writing in O_DIRECT mode to the array @ _35MB/s_ never reports a DMA > timeout -- I'll start increasing the buffer size to see where the cracking > point is.
Are your drives out of Seagate, maybe? If not, what make are they?
rjw
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