Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2007 08:50:15 -0500 From: Bill Moran <wmoran@potentialtech.com> To: "Tamouh H." <hakmi@rogers.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FW: Dell 2950 RAID issues!!! Message-ID: <20071130085015.213d66ac.wmoran@potentialtech.com> In-Reply-To: <1d2a01c8334e$213b28d0$6700a8c0@tamouh> References: <1d2a01c8334e$213b28d0$6700a8c0@tamouh>
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In response to "Tamouh H." <hakmi@rogers.com>: > > FYI for anyone experiencing issues with Dell RAID. We saw the behaviour described by Dell, applied the firmware updates, and now everything works fine. > > > > It come to my attention that Dell 2950 have issues with RAID > > controllers while used with some hard drives under Linux. > > Basically RAID configured hard drives are failing at rapid speed. > > > > Details: > > ---------- > > > M8033 HD,146G,SAS,3,10K,3.5,MXT,GEN > > > * Firmware Version BP05 * Fixes and Enhancements > > > ====================== This addresses Maxtor SAS HDD > > firmware issues, > > > where under certain circumstances a hard disk drive may go offline, > > > hard disk drives (HDD), may report offline due to a timeout > > condition. > > > If the HDD is unable to complete commands, this may result in the > > > controller reporting the HDD off line. This firmware update has > > > improved SMART Reporting, where drives can report SMART > > trips due to > > > aggressive SMART Error Rate Measurement counters during > > read verifies > > ------------------- > > > > > > Dell has advised to upgrade the RAID controller firmware. > > > > Tamouh > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com
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