Hey folks, some days ago i upgraded my FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE-p4 system to 8.1-RELEASE using freebsd-update. I'm using a generic kernel so the upgrade process was just straight forward.
However I encountered massive problems with my hdd which I now found out are attributed to this upgrade. I'm using a WD15EARS Caviar Green 1.5TB for data which is formated with ufs inside a geli container. The system itself runs on a 1GB CF card. Both is attached to a VIA EPIA Mini ITX platform. After the upgrade every read or write operation on the WD drive results in very slow performance (100k/s up to 2mb/s with significant lags) and dmesg is flooded with messages like the following: ad4: FAILURE - READ_MUL48 status=51<READY,DSC,ERROR> error=84<ICRC,ABORTED> LBA=594632984 bt kernel: GEOM_ELI: g_eli_read_done() failed ad4p1.eli[READ(offset=304452055040, length=4096)] bt kernel: g_vfs_done():ad4p1.eli[READ(offset=304452055040, length=4096)]error = 5 bt kernel: ad4: FAILURE - READ_MUL48 status=51<READY,DSC,ERROR> error=84<ICRC,ABORTED> LBA=2452694208 bt kernel: GEOM_ELI: g_eli_read_done() failed ad4p1.eli[READ(offset=1255779401728, length=131072)] bt kernel: g_vfs_done():ad4p1.eli[READ(offset=1255779401728, length=131072)]error = 5 bt kernel: ad4: TIMEOUT - READ_MUL48 retrying (1 retry left) LBA=2452698560 A filesystem check on the attached geli container reports thousands of errors and unreadable sectors. In the end every read or write operation (such as copying a larger file over the network) results in freezing the system after several minutes. So does the fsck which I didn't manage to perform completely. files transferred are mostly broken. As the messages look like a dying hdd I replaced the cable, checked connection, etc. Nothing changes. Have been fiddling around for one day now and was close to file an RMA request. But just to make sure I did a rollback using freebsd-udpate back to 8.0-RELEASE-p4. Behold now everything goes smooth again and no errors occur at all. performance stability - everything back to normal. Any ideas on this? Since 8.0 is approaching end-of-life I would really like to upgrade to 8.1.. thx a lot Michael _______________________________________________ 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"
