On Sat, 02 Oct 2010 22:25:18 -0400 Steve Polyack <kor...@comcast.net> wrote:
> I thin its worth it to think about TLER (or the absence of it) here - > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time-Limited_Error_Recovery . Your > consumer / SATA Hitachi drives likely do not put a limit on the time > the drive may block on a command while handling inernal errors. If > we consider that gpt/gisk06-live encountered some kind of error and > had to relocate a significant number of blocks or perform some other > error recovery, then it very well may have timed out long enough for > siis(4) to drop the device. I have no idea what the timeouts are set > to in the siis(4) driver, nor does anything in your SMART report > stick out to me (though I'm certainly no expert with SMART data, and > my understanding is that many drive manufacturers report the various > parameters in different ways). IIRC mav@ (CCed) made a commit regarding this to -current in the not so distant past. I do not know about the MFC status of this, or if it may have helped or not in this situation. Bye, Alexander. _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
