[OpenIndiana-discuss] Hardware fault, drive or controller?

[Mark]

On 16/07/2011 9:18 a.m., Matt Connolly wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> following my crash and boot failure during the week, I left my oi
> machine off for a day or so to think about what it had done wrong.
> After turning it back on and booting off the live oi-148 cd, I was
> able to import my 2 pools, and did a scrub of the boot pool. There
> were a few checksum errors, but everything recovered correctly.
>
> I then rebooted back into the installation on the HDs and it was
> looking good. I let it run doing a scrub of my data pool after
> reimporting it, which was running fine for many hours.
>
> However, it locked up again. The system was still running, (I could
> use firefox and make network connections) but anything that interacted
> with the data pool hung. `zpool status` hung, for example, and could
> not be terminated with Ctrl+C.
>
> I shut the machine down and saw lots of errors in /var/adm/messages like:
>
> Jul 14 07:10:01 vault genunix: [ID 859416 kern.info]
> ghd_timer_newstate: HBA reset failed hba 0x
> ffffff01ca571e40 gcmdp 0xffffff01db863a00 gtgtp 0xffffff01cc10f6c0
> Jul 14 07:10:01 vault scsi: [ID 107833 kern.warning] WARNING:
> /pci at 0,0/pci8086,2448 at 1e/pci-ide at 0
> /ide at 1 (ata1):
> Jul 14 07:10:01 vault   timeout: HBA reset, target=1 lun=0
> Jul 14 07:11:01 vault genunix: [ID 859416 kern.info]
> ghd_timer_newstate: HBA reset failed hba 0x
> ffffff01ca571e40 gcmdp 0xffffff01db863a00 gtgtp 0xffffff01cc10f6c0
> Jul 14 07:11:01 vault scsi: [ID 107833 kern.warning] WARNING:
> /pci at 0,0/pci8086,2448 at 1e/pci-ide at 0
> /ide at 1 (ata1):
> Jul 14 07:11:01 vault   timeout: HBA reset, target=1 lun=0
>
>
> I've since completed a scrub on both pools with no errors, so I'm
> fairly sure that it's not a dead hard drive.
>
> Does this sound like a motherboard/controller failure?? Any other thoughts?
>
> Thanks,
> Matt
>
>

Don't forget to check/replace the cables as well if it is sata.

Sata tends to run better in native sata mode too.

Mark.