Re: [zfs-discuss] Hard Errors on HDDs

2011-01-14 Thread solaris
Richard Elling richard.ell...@gmail.com writes: In my experience, this looks like a set of devices sitting behind an expander. I have seen one bad disk take out all disks sitting behind an expander. I have also seen bad disk firmware take out all disks behind an expander. I once saw a bad

Re: [zfs-discuss] Hard Errors on HDDs

2011-01-13 Thread Richard Elling
hard errors are a generic classification. fmdump -eV shows the sense/asc/ascq, which is generally more useful for diagnosis. More below... On Jan 1, 2011, at 7:50 AM, Benji wrote: Hi, I recently noticed that there are a lot of Hard Errors on multiple drives that's being reported by

Re: [zfs-discuss] Hard Errors on HDDs

2011-01-06 Thread Benji
For anyone that is interested, here's a progress report. I created a new pool with only one mirror vdev of 2 disks, namely with the new SAMSUNG HD204UI. These drives, along with the older HD203WI, use Advanced Format Technology (e.g. 4K sectors). Only these drives had hard errors in my pool,

[zfs-discuss] Hard Errors on HDDs

2011-01-03 Thread Benji
Hi, I recently noticed that there are a lot of Hard Errors on multiple drives that's being reported by iostat. Also, dmesg reports various messages from the mpt driver. My config is: MB: SUPERMICRO X8SIL-F HBA: AOC-USAS-L8i (LSI 1068) RAM: 4GB ECC SunOS SAN 5.11 snv_134 i86pc i386 i86pc

Re: [zfs-discuss] Hard Errors on HDDs

2011-01-03 Thread Orvar Korvar
Maybe a cable is loose? Reinsert all the cables into all drives? And the controller card? Yes, ZFS detects such problems. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [zfs-discuss] Hard Errors on HDDs

2011-01-03 Thread Benji
Thanks for the input! I am using an Ipass to Ipass cable that connects my HBA to my backplane. It was firmly locked into both connectors. I offlined 2 supposedly faulty SAMSUNG drives, scanned their whole surface using estools and it did not report any errors. I'm starting to think that it