I found the source of the hard errors. Apparently the disk-transport FMA module was attempting to check SMART status of the Samsung disks, which failed because SMART wasn't enabled on them by default. After enabling it with smartctl, the hard errors stopped.
Daniel Bakken On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 1:29 PM, Daniel Bakken <dan...@economicmodeling.com> wrote: > I'm using a Promise VTJ610SS SAS enclosure populated with 16 Samsung > HD203WI 2TB disks. About every 20 minutes, the hard error count > reported by iostat increments by exactly 9 for each disk in the > external enclosure. An identical Samsung disk (c7t27d0) connected to > an internal ICH10R SATA controller shows zero hard errors. Below is > the output from iostat -en: _______________________________________________ storage-discuss mailing list storage-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/storage-discuss
