Tru64-Unix V5.1a again problem with 180 GB Seagate disks

From: Harald Baumgartner (hmb@mpe.mpg.de)
Date: Thu Apr 18 2002 - 12:05:44 EDT


We are using some 180 GByte Seagate ST1181677LCV and ST1181677LC disks.

The disks with 16 MB Cache are loosing immediately data after writing or some
time later on both partitions (/data22c = dsk38d and /data22e = dsk38e):

vdf /data22c
Filesystem 1024-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on
data22c_dmn#data22c 60078408 58136656 1547680 98% /data22c ( dsk38d )

vdf /data22e_defekt
Filesystem 1024-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on
data22e_dmn#data22e 117148272 30480351 78502016 28% /data22e_defekt ( dsk38e )

here one of the error's:
....

attitude.tbl.gz:
gunzip: ./data/hri/m33h/merge_600020h/attitude.tbl.gz: invalid compressed data--crc error

gunzip: ./data/hri/m33h/merge_600020h/attitude.tbl.gz: invalid compressed data--length error

./data/hri/m33h/merge_600020h/creasou.cmd.gz: OK
./data/hri/m33h/merge_600020h/creasou.epf.gz: OK
./data/hri/m33h/merge_600020h/events.tbl.gz: OK
./data/hri/m33h/merge_600020h/image1.bdf.gz: OK
./data/hri/m33h/merge_600020h/merge.prg.gz: OK
./data/hri/m33h/merge_center/adaptiv_point.prg.gz: OK
./data/hri/m33h/merge_center/attitude.tbl.gz: OK
./data/hri/m33h/merge_center/azievents.tbl.gz: OK
./data/hri/m33h/merge_center/aziprof.tbl.gz: OK
./data/hri/m33h/merge_center/buf001.000.gz: OK
./data/hri/m33h/merge_center/catalog.tbl.gz: OK
....

Does anyone have seen this phenomena? Disk replacement (with one disk we have
done this) does not solve this, this phenomena appears again.

I made a disklabel -e dsk38 and a addvol/rmvol to the e-partition on the same
disk one day before. I did not change the partition on which the error occure.
According to this same error's on the e-Partition.

# /dev/rdisk/dsk38c:
type: SCSI
disk: ST1181677LC
label:
flags: dynamic_geometry
bytes/sector: 512
sectors/track: 611
tracks/cylinder: 24
sectors/cylinder: 14664
cylinders: 24247
sectors/unit: 354600001
rpm: 7177
interleave: 1
trackskew: 90
cylinderskew: 84
headswitch: 0 # milliseconds
track-to-track seek: 0 # milliseconds
drivedata: 0

8 partitions:
# size offset fstype fsize bsize cpg # ~Cyl values
  a: 146640 0 unused 0 0 # 0 - 9
  b: 0 0 unused 0 0 # 0 - 0
  c: 354600001 0 unused 0 0 # 0 - 24181*
  d: 120156816 146640 AdvFS # 10 - 8203
  e: 234296545 120303456 AdvFS # 8204 - 24181*
  f: 0 0 unused 0 0 # 0 - 0
  g: 0 0 unused 0 0 # 0 - 0
  h: 0 0 unused 0 0 # 0 - 0

Compaq told - 180 GByte disk are not supported. Actual i did'n got response from
engineering.

Any suggestions are welcome. Thanks, Harald Baumgartner

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