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From: Justin Piszcz <jpiszcz@lucidpixels.com>
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FYI:

Make a 100GB file, md5sum it, copy it to 'problem' drive and md5sum it, 
same MD5SUMS.

box:/x8# /usr/bin/time dd if=/dev/zero of=100gb bs=1M count=100000 ; 
/usr/bin/time md5sum 100gb; /usr/bin/time cp 100gb /x4 ; cd /x4 ; 
/usr/bin/time md5sum 100gb
100000+0 records in
100000+0 records out
104857600000 bytes transferred in 4735.034107 seconds (22145057 bytes/sec)
0.29user 245.59system 1:18:55elapsed 5%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 
0maxresident)k
0inputs+0outputs (0major+210minor)pagefaults 0swaps
1e95cd44e2cb773f483ea7b2f676258d  100gb
248.24user 98.17system 32:50.97elapsed 17%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 
0maxresident)k
0inputs+0outputs (1major+188minor)pagefaults 0swaps
14.75user 341.92system 35:25.25elapsed 16%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 
0maxresident)k
0inputs+0outputs (4major+183minor)pagefaults 0swaps
1e95cd44e2cb773f483ea7b2f676258d  100gb
246.95user 110.41system 28:06.49elapsed 21%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 
0maxresident)k
0inputs+0outputs (1major+190minor)pagefaults 0swaps
box:/x4#

Also, all SMART tests passed with flying colors..

(FYI)


On Tue, 14 Feb 2006, Mark Lord wrote:

> Justin Piszcz wrote:
> ..
>>  ata3: translated ATA stat/err 0x51/04 to SCSI SK/ASC/ASCQ 0xb/00/00
>>  ata3: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
>>  ata3: error=0x04 { DriveStatusError }
>
> I wonder if the FUA logic is inserting cache-flush commands
> and perhaps the drive is rejecting those?
>
> Jeff, we really ought to be including the failed ATA opcode
> in those error messages!!
>
> Cheers
>