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From: Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net>
To: Bruce Campbell <bruce@engmail.uwaterloo.ca>
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Subject: Re: problem on 1TB filesystem RAID 5 3ware
Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2003 20:45:00 -0500
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On Tue, 18 Mar 2003 08:05:36 -0500, in sentex.lists.freebsd.hardware you
wrote:

>
>
>Tested with RAID 10 instead of RAID 5, success !
>
>RAID 10 arrays tested:  6xWD200GB and 8xWD200GB both worked
>RAID 5 arrays tested: 6xWD200GB and 4xWD200GB both failed
>
>Note: 3ware lists the WD 200GB disk as "Under Test". (ie they have not =
yet=20
>given it a "Compatible" rating)=20
>
>details of tests and the procedure to detect the failure etc at
>
>http://www.freebsd.uwaterloo.ca/twiki/bin/view/Freebsd/BackupServerProbl=
em
>
>I still have to try an officially approved drive.


Although they dont officially support FreeBSD, I have found that the =
3ware
folks did accept trouble reports like this in the past.  It might just be=
 a
firmware issue with the rev you have.  Are you running the lastest =
firmware
from them ?

I dont run RAID5 anywhere, so I cant compare :-(

	---Mike
Mike Tancsa  (mike@sentex.net)=09
http://www.sentex.net/mike

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