From owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Mar 9 01:47:14 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0597416A4CE for ; Tue, 9 Mar 2004 01:47:13 -0800 (PST) Received: from relay.kiev.sovam.com (relay.kiev.sovam.com [212.109.32.5]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6BA4243D55 for ; Tue, 9 Mar 2004 01:47:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dimitry@al.org.ua) Received: from [212.109.32.116] (helo=svitonline.com) by relay.kiev.sovam.com with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1B0dpP-000KHf-51; Tue, 09 Mar 2004 11:47:11 +0200 From: Dmitry Alyabyev To: Adrian Date: Tue, 9 Mar 2004 11:47:10 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.6 References: <6.0.1.1.0.20040309123150.01ddfd08@mail.connexus.net.au> In-Reply-To: <6.0.1.1.0.20040309123150.01ddfd08@mail.connexus.net.au> X-NCC-RegID: ua.svitonline MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200403091147.10613.dimitry@al.org.ua> X-Scanner-Signature: d3dfc5a0b247ea81d48b6a940fe6235f X-DrWeb-checked: yes cc: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Best IDE RAID5 solution for FreeBSD 5.2 ? X-BeenThere: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: dimitry@al.org.ua List-Id: Internet Services Providers List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 09 Mar 2004 09:47:14 -0000 hi almost the same happened to me with Promise RAID card and couple of IDE WDs (100..120GB). finally I found that the source of these problems was noise-reduction feature that is turned on on some IDE disks which were probably designed for desktops. so I upgraded firmware on all WDs to turn it off - and voila - it works just fine ! details here: http://wdc.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/wdc.cfg/php/enduser/std_adp.php?p_faqid=913&p_created=1047068027 hope this helps -- Dimitry On Tuesday 09 March 2004 03:58, Adrian wrote: > Hi, > > I'm having lots of trouble with 3ware RAID > cards and would like to know what other > people are using.. > > I basically just need to be able to rebuild > degraded arrays remotely (from FreeBSD) as > I don't always have console access to the > machines and can't power-cycle them. > > I have various versions of the 3Ware cards > (mainly 7006). After a while one of the drives > will degrade. If I rebuild it, the same drive > just degrades again soon after. I've replaced > everything from the HD to RAID card, motherboard > and cables - but in the end I have to format the > array and rebuild the machine from scratch but > then after a while it starts doing the same thing.. > This is happening on FreeBSD versions 4.8->5.2 > and across completely different hardware (though > I've only ever used Maxtor IDE drives). > > Any help / suggestions would be appreciated. > > Thanks, > Adrian. > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-isp@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-isp > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-isp-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"