XFS/driver bug or bad drive?

[David Engel]

On Wed, Oct 07, 2009 at 03:04:31PM +0100, Michael-John Turner wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 07, 2009 at 08:24:41AM -0500, Eric Sandeen wrote:
> > Firmware bug?  I still think it can't be an xfs problem, and I'm not
> > just trying to be protective of our turf ;)
> 
> Could very well be a firmware bug - FWIW, my drive has version 1AA01109.

A firmware bug wouldn't surprise me.  FWIW, here are my firmware
versions and latest information.

The problematic drive has firmware version 1AA01110.  I don't trust
that specific drive, don't really trust that model anymore, so I
retired it and bought a new drive to replace it.

The other HD753LJ I have (also replacement) has firmware version
1AA01110 too.  This drive hasn't shown any problems yet, but I will be
testing it more after I finish moving some files around.

> Some searching online suggests that others have solved similar problems by
> replacing their SATA cables. I'll give that a try but, as my issue isn't
> reproducible (subsequent cvs updates haven't given any problems), it'll be
> difficult to know immediately if a faulty cable was the problem.

I probably ran across all of the same stuff.  I tried multiple cables,
multiple SATA ports and multiple host systems.  The problem was nearly
100% on the intended system.  I don't know how frequent the problem
was on the second system since I stopped testing on it after the first
failure confirmed the problem was not specific to the original system.

David
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