Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2013 20:13:24 +0100 From: Dr Josef Karthauser <joe@karthauser.co.uk> To: Andrea Venturoli <ml@netfence.it> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Drive failures with ada on FreeBSD-9.1, driver bug or wiring issue? Message-ID: <5B6FB80D-609D-4336-B3F8-C09AA7CACB44@karthauser.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <51E7DA7C.8060105@netfence.it> References: <20130716225013.1C63B23A@babel.karthauser.co.uk> <60F7BE75-5E2F-471E-A9CE-AF4CD17D96E2@karthauser.co.uk> <281DBD06-81D5-4DDD-9464-B96C80C22C3F@gid.co.uk> <51E7DA7C.8060105@netfence.it>
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On 18 Jul 2013, at 13:07, Andrea Venturoli <ml@netfence.it> wrote: > Perhaps they are WD Green drives? They're WD RE2-GP 1 TB drives (model WD1000FYPS) , not sure if that's = green or not. > In that case, other than quoting Bob's suggestion about avoiding them, = there's something you can do: > a) turn off the drives' power-saving features (this is done through a = DOS utility you can download); > b) try different controllers and/or different OS releases. I'm committed to FreeBSD, as the machine is already rolled out and in a = data centre ;). > You'll find a lot on this problem if you search the web. > There's also a report of mine you can search on this ML, regarding = FreeBSD specifically. I'll see if I can find it. Thanks. Joe
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