From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Feb 26 20:22:00 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C915116A4CE for ; Sat, 26 Feb 2005 20:22:00 +0000 (GMT) Received: from imf17aec.mail.bellsouth.net (imf17aec.mail.bellsouth.net [205.152.59.65]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2CFF343D31 for ; Sat, 26 Feb 2005 20:22:00 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from lists@elhombre.us) Received: from [192.168.0.10] ([70.146.142.130]) by imf17aec.mail.bellsouth.netESMTP <20050226202159.TWFX2031.imf17aec.mail.bellsouth.net@[192.168.0.10]>; Sat, 26 Feb 2005 15:21:59 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20050225233637.GA26481@e-Gitt.NET> References: <421DFC73.7060602@cs.tu-berlin.de> <013301c51a8b$ed2ad230$0300000a@Uzi> <7f6570e5997b376fb8f75d812d386264@elhombre.us> <6.2.1.2.0.20050224153015.02be6df0@64.7.153.2> <20050224233122.GD41951@e-Gitt.NET> <20050225083339.GA5014@aoi.wolfpond.org> <20050225110543.GA70464@e-Gitt.NET> <20050225180701.GB6633@aoi.wolfpond.org> <20050225200656.GG5033@opteron.dglawrence.com> <20050225201851.GI5033@opteron.dglawrence.com> <20050225233637.GA26481@e-Gitt.NET> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v619.2) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Message-Id: <2e596c7c39eb26dde04cbea5a745ff3c@elhombre.us> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Dustin Wilhoit Date: Sat, 26 Feb 2005 14:21:58 -0600 To: Oliver Brandmueller X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.619.2) cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: SATA RAID Support X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 26 Feb 2005 20:22:00 -0000 On Feb 25, 2005, at 5:36 PM, Oliver Brandmueller wrote: > Hi. > > On Fri, Feb 25, 2005 at 12:18:51PM -0800, David G. Lawrence wrote: >> Answer >> Problem: >> WD EIDE drives are dropped from an IDE RAID array or system after >> several >> days or weeks of error-free operation. > > Of course I looked at 3ware, at WD and in google to find to find an > answer. I found both the articles you posted. > > One applies to PATA drives, which we don't have. It gives no hint about > software versions for SATA drives and I did not find a firmware upgrade > at WD either. > > The other one applies to SATA drives. When I found this, I checked with > smartctl in another machine (smartctl does not see single drives on the > 3ware) all the RAID drives. Acoustic management was disabled on all > disks. This does not really surprise me, though. 10 krpm disks are > probably meant for servers and to deliver high performance - switching > on acoustic management by default on these drives would not be very > smart. > > Thanx anyway, > > Oliver > > -- > | Oliver Brandmueller | Offenbacher Str. 1 | Germany D-14197 > Berlin | > | Fon +49-172-3130856 | Fax +49-172-3145027 | WWW: > http://the.addict.de/ | > | Ich bin das Internet. Sowahr ich Gott helfe. > | > | Eine gewerbliche Nutzung aller enthaltenen Adressen ist nicht > gestattet! | > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-stable-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > Oliver, Call 3ware's support, they were kind enough to point out a drive incompatibility I had at a previous job with a 3ware SATA RAID controller and some WD drives! The drives were not performing as well as they should and occasionally one would get flagged as bad when it wasn't. Call 3ware they will be a world of help and their support was good. Dustin Wilhoit