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Date:      Mon, 16 Jun 2003 14:45:30 -0400
From:      Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net>
To:        Charles Sprickman <spork@inch.com>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: state of ide raid
Message-ID:  <5.2.0.9.0.20030616144212.062a4878@209.112.4.2>
In-Reply-To: <20030616143157.R87423@shell.inch.com>
References:  <5.2.0.9.0.20030616134135.046a0e60@209.112.4.2> <87d6hhn707.fsf@Pectopah.shenton.org> <20030613041037.C89958@shell.inch.com> <87d6hhn707.fsf@Pectopah.shenton.org> <5.2.0.9.0.20030616134135.046a0e60@209.112.4.2>

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At 02:34 PM 16/06/2003 -0400, Charles Sprickman wrote:
>I'll second that.  I have the 3ware two port model and it seems to have
>"burped" and decided one of the disks was dead.  I went to the management
>interface (web-only) and removed/added the "bad" drive and then rebuilt
>the mirror.  Performance was fine during the rebuild.
>
>Now why the one drive went "bad" is a question I cannot answer...
>Supposedly the newest firmware supports SMART, but I don't think the
>FreeBSD driver nor the 3ware web interface do anything with that data.


It does for me. Here is an example warning I get on bad drives.  It also 
logs it to kern via syslog.

SMART Threshold Exceeded condition detected on port 1 on controller ID:0. 
Check drive for media errors. (0xf)

This was from a bad Fujitsu.

         ---Mike 



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