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Troublesome hard-drive in LVM — is it broken?

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Mar 15, 202613121 views
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Problem

I have a LVM volume set up with several harddrives, and one of them seems to be failing, or at least something strange is going on. Every time the logical volume sees heavy write activity, the running program (rTorrent most of the time) crashes, and reports The volume itself: I then all the LVM-vol…

Error Output

ata6.00: exception Emask 0x10 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x1810000 action 0xe frozen
ata6.00: irq_stat 0x00400000, PHY RDY changed
ata6: SError: { PHYRdyChg LinkS…

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Try turning off NCQ for the problematic drive (reference: this page and this page) You might also try changing out the SATA cable to the drive, because a weak/borderline electrical connection might also cause those kinds of errors. As for your memor…

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