Hi Stan, thanks for your answer.
On 27 November 2009, at 20:30, stan wrote: > On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 05:37:02PM +0100, Vincent Zee wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I'm trying to replace a faulty disk in a gmirror mirror but >> it fails. >> >> This machine contains two mirrors: mirror0 and mirror1 each >> containing two disks of 500 GB. mirror1 is giving me trouble. >> >> The disk on channel 3 (ad6), which was identical to the disk on >> channel 2 (ad4), was faulty and I replaced it with a larger disk >> this morning. The new disk is a Western Digital 640 GB. >> >> The steps I took sofar: >> >> #gmirror forget mirror1 >> >> #gmirror insert mirror1 ad6 >> >> A "gmirror status" shows the new disk being added to mirror1. >> It then starts to write to the new disk but stops after a few >> seconds and when I do "gmirror status" again the new disk is >> gone again. >> >> Any ideas? >> > I have several Sun X2100's, and the have a problem with the riser > connector for the drives. I have seen behaviios like this, when I had a > hardware problem. Might that be your issue? The sata drives are on a cheap controller: atapci1: <SiI SiI 3512 SATA150 controller> port 0xdc00-0xdc07, 0xe000-0xe003,0xe400-0xe407,0xe800-0xe803,0xec00-0xec0f mem 0xdf002000-0xdf0021ff irq 10 at device 20.0 on pci0 I looked at dmesg and found this error message: GEOM_MIRROR: Device mirror1: rebuilding provider ad6. interrupt storm detected on "irq10:"; throttling interrupt source interrupt storm detected on "irq10:"; throttling interrupt source interrupt storm detected on "irq10:"; throttling interrupt source interrupt storm detected on "irq10:"; throttling interrupt source interrupt storm detected on "irq10:"; throttling interrupt source ad6: TIMEOUT - WRITE_DMA retrying (1 retry left) LBA=35200 ad6: FAILURE - WRITE_DMA status=51<READY,DSC,ERROR> error=4<ABORTED> LBA=358528 GEOM_MIRROR: Synchronization request failed (error=5). ad6[WRITE(offset=183500800, length=131072)] GEOM_MIRROR: Device mirror1: provider ad6 disconnected. GEOM_MIRROR: Device mirror1: rebuilding provider ad6 stopped. /\ Vincent_______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
