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> On Fri, 21 Nov 2008, Peter Rabbitson wrote:
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>> 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
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>>
>> 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
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http://marc.info/?l=linux-raid&m=122669103213041 for more info on my
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> 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?
