Multiple hard disk failures - coincidence ?

[Mike Silbersack]

On Sat, 18 Dec 2004, Gary Corcoran wrote:

> I've just had *THREE* Maxtor 250GB hard disk failures on my
> FreeBSD 4.10 server within a matter of days.  One I could
> attribute to actual failure.  Two made me suspicious.  Three
> has me wondering if this is some software problem...   (or
> a conspiracy (just kidding) ;-) )

Are the errors occuring at around the same block numbers?  I recall a 
thread on -current talking about how some drives reported failures around 
the 133GB mark.  Soren recently committed a patch to -current changing the 
point at which 48bit addressing is used to work around this.  It may be 
worth investigating.

Mike "Silby" Silbersack