Hmm - bit strange but first the scenario. It's a server so I'm a bit unable booting from various analysis systems. 
It got 2 new HDD's installed and a fresh new installation of FreeBSD 8.1. Though after some time installing ports I the first HDD gets disconnected.
dmesg shows:
The complete dmesg output - still a GENERIC kernel - nothing patched and yet - except sshd - nothing running.
A quick smartct test on ad4:
So the problem is - anything software related or hardware ? :\
It got 2 new HDD's installed and a fresh new installation of FreeBSD 8.1. Though after some time installing ports I the first HDD gets disconnected.
dmesg shows:
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ad4: TIMEOUT - WRITE_DMA48 retrying (1 retry left) LBA=463008256
ad4: FAILURE - WRITE_DMA48 status=51<READY,DSC,ERROR> error=10<NID_NOT_FOUND> LBA=463008256The complete dmesg output - still a GENERIC kernel - nothing patched and yet - except sshd - nothing running.
A quick smartct test on ad4:
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=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
Model Family: Western Digital RE Serial ATA family
Device Model: WDC WD2500YS-18SHB2
Serial Number: WD-WCANY4023177
Firmware Version: 20.06C07
User Capacity: 250,000,000,000 bytes
Device is: In smartctl database [for details use: -P show]
ATA Version is: 7
ATA Standard is: Exact ATA specification draft version not indicated
Local Time is: Sun Mar 27 22:29:40 2011 CEST
SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability.
SMART support is: Enabled
=== START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION ===
SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: PASSED
General SMART Values:
Offline data collection status: (0x84) Offline data collection activity
was suspended by an interrupting command from host.
Auto Offline Data Collection: Enabled.
Self-test execution status: ( 33) The self-test routine was interrupted
by the host with a hard or soft reset.
Total time to complete Offline
data collection: (7680) seconds.
Offline data collection
capabilities: (0x7b) SMART execute Offline immediate.
Auto Offline data collection on/off support.
Suspend Offline collection upon new
command.
Offline surface scan supported.
Self-test supported.
Conveyance Self-test supported.
Selective Self-test supported.
SMART capabilities: (0x0003) Saves SMART data before entering
power-saving mode.
Supports SMART auto save timer.
Error logging capability: (0x01) Error logging supported.
General Purpose Logging supported.
Short self-test routine
recommended polling time: ( 2) minutes.
Extended self-test routine
recommended polling time: ( 91) minutes.
Conveyance self-test routine
recommended polling time: ( 6) minutes.
SCT capabilities: (0x103f) SCT Status supported.
SCT Error Recovery Control supported.
SCT Feature Control supported.
SCT Data Table supported.
SMART Attributes Data Structure revision number: 16
Vendor Specific SMART Attributes with Thresholds:
ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME FLAG VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE UPDATED WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE
1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate 0x000f 200 200 051 Pre-fail Always - 0
3 Spin_Up_Time 0x0003 187 187 021 Pre-fail Always - 5625
4 Start_Stop_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 27
5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct 0x0033 176 176 140 Pre-fail Always - 187
7 Seek_Error_Rate 0x000e 199 199 051 Old_age Always - 98
9 Power_On_Hours 0x0032 084 084 000 Old_age Always - 12022
10 Spin_Retry_Count 0x0012 100 253 051 Old_age Always - 0
11 Calibration_Retry_Count 0x0012 100 253 051 Old_age Always - 0
12 Power_Cycle_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 27
194 Temperature_Celsius 0x0022 121 093 000 Old_age Always - 29
196 Reallocated_Event_Count 0x0032 166 166 000 Old_age Always - 34
197 Current_Pending_Sector 0x0012 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 0
198 Offline_Uncorrectable 0x0010 200 200 000 Old_age Offline - 0
199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count 0x003e 200 196 000 Old_age Always - 51
200 Multi_Zone_Error_Rate 0x0008 200 200 051 Old_age Offline - 0
SMART Error Log Version: 1
No Errors Logged
SMART Self-test log structure revision number 1
Num Test_Description Status Remaining LifeTime(hours) LBA_of_first_error
# 1 Extended offline Completed without error 00% 1 -
# 2 Short offline Completed without error 00% 0 -
SMART Selective self-test log data structure revision number 1
SPAN MIN_LBA MAX_LBA CURRENT_TEST_STATUS
1 0 0 Not_testing
2 0 0 Not_testing
3 0 0 Not_testing
4 0 0 Not_testing
5 0 0 Not_testing
Selective self-test flags (0x0):
After scanning selected spans, do NOT read-scan remainder of disk.
If Selective self-test is pending on power-up, resume after 0 minute delay.So the problem is - anything software related or hardware ? :\