From owner-freebsd-hardware Mon Jan 20 11:19:57 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 01FB037B401; Mon, 20 Jan 2003 11:19:56 -0800 (PST) Received: from weenix.guru.org (weenix.guru.org [24.199.153.98]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 19F5E43E4A; Mon, 20 Jan 2003 11:19:55 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kmitch@guru.org) Received: from guru.org (dhcp-64-102-83-151.cisco.com [64.102.83.151]) (using TLSv1 with cipher RC4-MD5 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by weenix.guru.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C7FEEACABE; Mon, 20 Jan 2003 14:19:42 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <3E2C4BCD.7090604@guru.org> Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2003 14:19:41 -0500 From: Keith Mitchell User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.0.2) Gecko/20021120 Netscape/7.01 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Douglas K. Rand" Cc: Shaun Dwyer , Lanny Baron , Soeren Schmidt , "randall s. ehren" , freebsd-hardware , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG, sos@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ATA problems (still) References: <200301151238.h0FCcD5e025929@spider.deepcore.dk> <1042677925.19537.42.camel@panda.FreeBSDsystems.COM> <3E2B4432.3080705@crystal.com.au> <874r83zldh.fsf@delta.meridian-enviro.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Douglas K. Rand wrote: >Shaun> Hi all... > >Hi! > >Shaun> I have a box with 6 WD 80Gb BB series drives on a 3ware >Shaun> Escalade raid controller doing raid 5. Every now and then a >Shaun> drives seem to drop from the array for no reason. Its always a >Shaun> different drive, on a different port. Mabye the later WD drives >Shaun> have some issues. Perhaps overly aggressive timing? > >We had very similiar problems with WD 100 GB (WD1000BB) disks on a >3ware controller. We'd get this error for no apparent reason: > > twe0: AEN: > >It turns out that there is some bios incompatability between the 3ware >controller and these WD disks. Once I found the right person at 3ware >and described my problem, he said that its the disks. We switched to >IBM disks and the problem went away. > >I have NO IDEA if the problem is the same on the WD800BB disks. > It sounds like it may be the same problem. Apparently at least several people have been having problems with the newer western digital drives. I just swapped mine out for a Maxtor and so far so good. My system has been up for three days without a problem. Hopefully that switch will get rid of that annoyance for me :-) -- Keith Mitchell Email: kmitch@guru.org PGP key available upon request To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message