Date: Sun, 11 Nov 2001 14:39:52 -0600 (CST) From: "Steve Kaczkowski" <operator@phreak.net> To: jose@we.lc.ehu.es Cc: hardware@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: requesting opinions about strange 3ware problem Message-ID: <4135.65.25.176.231.1005511192.squirrel@mail.phreak.net> In-Reply-To: <20011111151209.A319@v-ger.we.lc.ehu.es> References: <20011111151209.A319@v-ger.we.lc.ehu.es>
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> Warning: this is a long message. > > At the end of past July, I installed a 3ware Escalade 7410 RAID > controller with four IBM DTLA-307075 (75 GB) disks attached in RAID-5 > configuration. Everything worked fine for two months, until I installed > the new version of the 3dm utility (I did not installed it before, > because its previous version did not support the Escalade 7xxx series). > Once 3dm was installed everything looked OK. However, some hours later > (at 3:02 AM), an error was detected in one of the ports of the RAID > unit ("drive error... check for cables or media errors". I rebooted the > system, entered the 3ware BIOS and started a rebuild of the RAID-5 > unit, which was completed about two or three hours later. I don't > believe on casuality, so I suspected (and I still suspect) that the 3dm > utility "did something" that triggered the error. > ... All sorts of stuff deleted ... If I'm not mistaken *all* of the 75GXPs have problems with corruption due to how tightly they're packing the data on the platters.. Do some searching on google or storagereview.com, I'm sure you'll find a whole bunch of info.. And of course IBM doesn't care to admit to anything Regards, -- Steve Kaczkowski operator@phreak.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message
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