[nycbug-talk] drive failure?

[Jonathan Vanasco]

Greetings all--

Last week a server that I've been preparing for colo went down.
Everything just stopped working, i was getting a ton of kernel  
messages ( like below ) on the screen.

I tried rebooting, as I thought it could have been from too much  
Postgres activity, and everything spiraled out of control.

I just shut it down because I had too much other work to do , and I  
finallly got to it today.

On first bootup, it was the same thing.  I sinned and just pulled the  
powercord, because screen messages kept a reboot from being entered.

I ran fsck on startup and got 3 stalls from bad block errors -- but  
it seemed to clear stuff up. I did a real reboot, and the server is  
up and running.

My question is this:  I just bought this 1 month ago.  I'm not too  
knowledgeable with FreeBSD disk errors information -- does this look  
to be a physical error ( ie, i make the vendor replace a drive ), or  
does this look to be software based ?

thanks.

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Apr 28 14:37:24  kernel: ad12: WARNING - SETFEATURES SET TRANSFER  
MODE taskqueue timeout - completing request directly

Apr 28 14:37:24  kernel: ad12: WARNING - SETFEATURES ENABLE RCACHE  
taskqueue timeout - completing request directly

Apr 28 14:37:24  kernel: ad12: WARNING - SET_MULTI taskqueue timeout  
- completing request directly

Apr 28 14:37:24  kernel: ad12: TIMEOUT - READ_DMA retrying (1 retry  
left) LBA=20542527

Apr 28 14:38:05  kernel: ad12: TIMEOUT - WRITE_DMA retrying (1 retry  
left) LBA=16789279