Re: SATA 3112 errors on 2.6.7

["R. J. Wysocki" <rjwysocki@sisk.pl>]

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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