Re: [PROBLEM] reproduceable storage errors on high IO load

From: Valdis . Kletnieks
Date: Tue Jul 05 2011 - 18:34:56 EST


On Mon, 04 Jul 2011 15:39:23 +0200, Lars =?UTF-8?B?VMOkdWJlcg==?= said:

> 1.
> * Ultrastar 7K3000 attached to onboard AMD_AHCI
> * dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sde
> * dd told write speed of: 15.7MB/s
> * no error after half an hour
>
> 2.
> * Ultrastar 7K3000 attached to PCIe to sata_mv controller
> * dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda
> * dd told write speed of: 6.5MB/s
> * no error but strange log: dmesg-PCIe-sata_mv.log.gz
>
> 3.
> * Ultrastar 7K3000 attached to PCIe areca SAS HBA (mvsas)
> * dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdg
> * dd told write speed of: 1.3MB/s
> * errors: dmesg-PCIe-mvsas.log.gz

Umm.. was this the *same* Ulstrastar disk connected 3 different ways? And how
exactly was it connected in each case? (Trying to rule out flaky disks if it
was 3 different disks, or a hardware/cabling issue specific to the areca
controller)

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