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

[Justin Piszcz <jpiszcz@lucidpixels.com>]

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?

Justin.