[j-nsp] M7i router with ATA disk going bad?

[sthaug at nethelp.no]

> These messages do not indicate a hardware failure.  See PR56203.

Thanks, that is good to know. It would have been nice if JTAC could
have given us the same answer.

Steinar Haug, Nethelp consulting, sthaug at nethelp.no


> 
> Andy
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: juniper-nsp-bounces at puck.nether.net 
> > [mailto:juniper-nsp-bounces at puck.nether.net] On Behalf Of 
> > sthaug at nethelp.no
> > Sent: Tuesday, March 01, 2005 10:50 AM
> > To: juniper-nsp at puck.nether.net
> > Subject: [j-nsp] M7i router with ATA disk going bad?
> > 
> > 
> > We have two different M7i routers that have each logged one (and only
> > one) instance of the following message:
> > 
> > atareadhdidentity: ioctl: Resource temporarily unavailable
> > 
> > and at the same time "show chassis hardware detail" (which is used by
> > rancid) shows that the ad1 disk is apparently absent. At the 
> > next rancid run, everything is back to normal.
> > 
> > We have reported this to JTAC, and have been asked to run 
> > "smartd" to perform disk testing and report the results back 
> > to Juniper. But we have received no resolution to the problem 
> > (if it is indeed a problem).
> > 
> > Has anybody else seen this? We are somewhat worried that it 
> > could indicate a disk going bad, since we have had a disk 
> > dying once on an M10i (which of course uses the same RE and 
> > ATA disk as M7i). Note that when the M10i disk died, we 
> > received no "atareadhdidentity" message.
> > 
> > Steinar Haug, Nethelp consulting, sthaug at nethelp.no 
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