From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Mar 19 0:29:37 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mail1.thewrittenword.com (ns1.thewrittenword.com [67.89.104.183]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0C5C037B417; Tue, 19 Mar 2002 00:29:12 -0800 (PST) Received: (from china@localhost) by mail1.thewrittenword.com (8.11.4/8.11.4) id g2J8T9x95533; Tue, 19 Mar 2002 02:29:09 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from freebsd-stable@thewrittenword.com) Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2002 02:29:09 -0600 From: Albert Chin To: "Douglas K. Rand" Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG, bryanh@meridian-enviro.com Subject: Re: 3Ware, Western Digital disks, and stray interrupts Message-ID: <20020319022908.A94648@oolong.il.thewrittenword.com> Reply-To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG References: <87wuwave61.wl@delta.meridian-enviro.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <87wuwave61.wl@delta.meridian-enviro.com>; from rand@meridian-enviro.com on Sun, Mar 17, 2002 at 07:48:54PM -0600 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, Mar 17, 2002 at 07:48:54PM -0600, Douglas K. Rand wrote: > We have two pretty much identical systems: Both are Tyan Tiger MP > S2469 boards with a 3ware 7450 controller and Western Digital WD1000 > 100GB disks. One system has 4 disks in a RAID 10 configuration, and > the other has 2 disks in a RAID 1 configuration. One system only has a > single Athlon MP CPU, while the other has 2 Athlon MP CPUs. > > We have gone through 5 of the WD1000 disks so far, with a 6th that > just failed the other day. The first 3 failures we tested with Western > Digital's drive fitness test, which reported all thee drives to be > OK. The first disk that failed we tried to put back in and have the > 3ware controller rebuild, but the rebuild failed after 2 hours. We've > stopped testing the disks, and just send them back to Western > Digital. We're running a 6410 with four WD1000 disks and have had only one failure so far. Anyway, according to the author of the twe driver, Michael Smith, a firmware upgrade for the 7xxx series controllers should be available by now. Read: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=576845+578877+/usr/local/www/db/text/2002/freebsd-stable/20020310.freebsd-stable Dunno if it'll help but it might be worth a shot. -- albert chin (china@thewrittenword.com) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message