From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Feb 22 18:58:01 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2375316A422 for ; Wed, 22 Feb 2006 18:58:01 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from viper@fx-services.com) Received: from mamata.fx-services.com (mamata.fx-services.com [193.238.27.190]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3677E43D45 for ; Wed, 22 Feb 2006 18:57:56 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from viper@fx-services.com) Received: from c83-250-235-77.bredband.comhem.se ([83.250.235.77] helo=[192.168.2.160]) by mamata.fx-services.com with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.60 (FreeBSD)) (envelope-from ) id 1FBzBf-000J0t-KY for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 22 Feb 2006 19:58:08 +0100 Message-ID: <43FCB115.7030707@fx-services.com> Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2006 19:44:37 +0100 From: Robin Vley User-Agent: Debian Thunderbird 1.0.7 (X11/20051017) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <03d101c637d5$dfe89040$0300020a@mickey> In-Reply-To: <03d101c637d5$dfe89040$0300020a@mickey> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Antivirus-Scanner: Mail is Virus Free, FXS MailGateway X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - mamata.fx-services.com X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - freebsd.org X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [0 0] / [26 6] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - fx-services.com X-Source: X-Source-Args: X-Source-Dir: Subject: Re: 3Ware Escalade Issues X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2006 18:58:01 -0000 Don O'Neil wrote: Don, > They're Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 9 6Y250P0 250 GB PATA drives... Never had a > problem with that particular drive until this batch. I used the 80, 120 and 160GB version of that series in some of my servers built 2 years ago. Out of the 18 disks originally put in, I have 4 broken ones on my desk now. I'm not very happy with the overal performance when it comes to reliability of that series Maxtor. > Can anyone suggest some good 250GB PATA drives for me to use? I might as > well swap them all out since I'm starting over. The 6000 series Escalade > card I'm using doesn't support anything more than 250 GB. I swapped the broken Maxtors with Seagate disks. I'm using 3ware 7500-4 for the PATA. Forgot what the SATA 3ware controller was, but so far no problem with that one (also on Maxtor disks). /Robin