Date: Wed, 7 May 2003 15:47:15 -0400 From: Bruce Campbell <bruce@engmail.uwaterloo.ca> To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: a few WD1200JB drives going offline Message-ID: <1052336835.3eb962c3b9645@www.nexusmail.uwaterloo.ca>
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I have about 20 FreeBSD systems with Western Digital ATA disks, some 3ware RAID, and some not, different motherboards, etc. All use a low cost removeable ATA drive tray. About 1 month ago I got in 4 Western Digital WD1200JB disks, and put 3 into service. All 3 have gone offline during operations within the last 3 weeks. They just kind of vanish, controller gives a timeout error, drive light stays on, system dies, soft reboot fixes it. 2 were on a 3ware controller, and went offline 12 days apart. 1 was on the plain onboard ATA controller. Our supplier has not noticed an unusual return rate on these drives. None of our crop of WD400BB, WD2000BB have drives have done this. Any ideas ? I have not yet run WD's disk diagnostic. -- Bruce Campbell Engineering Computing CPH-2374B University of Waterloo (519)888-4567 ext 5889 ---------------------------------------- This mail sent through www.mywaterloo.ca
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