From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jun 2 14:54:56 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E2626106566B for ; Thu, 2 Jun 2011 14:54:56 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bruce@cran.org.uk) Received: from muon.cran.org.uk (muon.cran.org.uk [IPv6:2a01:348:0:15:5d59:5c40:0:1]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 379E78FC1E for ; Thu, 2 Jun 2011 14:54:55 +0000 (UTC) Received: from muon.cran.org.uk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by muon.cran.org.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id 236AEE6303; Thu, 2 Jun 2011 15:54:53 +0100 (BST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=cran.org.uk; h=date:from :to:cc:subject:message-id:in-reply-to:references:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; s=mail; bh=rveLtu6j6KC2 ZGbfN6Gj7kIZM4I=; b=ryvgBB9fgtj2ZGG+j8Ng7r+buFXJ7f5oqO495CINiLxL aIx1ASofwdfzaSKuQ/3dUo0DADDDV7YuDYp1yfdQi+sMU1tcM2vJhhfaxIpE5ENM Qk7m5Zmqq/1oNsM2MwUKEYnJuHVe3JnH5VS2jtZGYFMLNuLJQfX93Nev6Zvmd+o= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=cran.org.uk; h=date:from:to :cc:subject:message-id:in-reply-to:references:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; q=dns; s=mail; b=BezTdS tm2ODhRlDTKOPWQEB2kefBbKnBPyS0GmABB0EZl/E7wf5oGM4mbtIgaPMxHJegd1 Kb7gb9vQQtp6wcA8/wA/x7guytk+OgTTo8D6L3/TwvJf6uajvdztCStSdoKTDKmr Kgd70layx9ShgZ/ugdCAnAsS2uEBS0mA7P52M= Received: from unknown (188-222-18-231.zone13.bethere.co.uk [188.222.18.231]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by muon.cran.org.uk (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id D43ECE62D2; Thu, 2 Jun 2011 15:54:52 +0100 (BST) Date: Thu, 2 Jun 2011 15:54:52 +0100 From: Bruce Cran To: Andrea Venturoli Message-ID: <20110602155452.00006775@unknown> In-Reply-To: <4DE77F01.1050900@netfence.it> References: <4DE77F01.1050900@netfence.it> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.8cvs47 (GTK+ 2.16.6; i586-pc-mingw32msvc) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Critical issues with WD green drives 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: Thu, 02 Jun 2011 14:54:57 -0000 On Thu, 02 Jun 2011 14:16:01 +0200 Andrea Venturoli wrote: > In a server of mine (7.3p4/i386) I replaced a 1TB Hitachi SATA drive > (which worked perfectly), with two brand new Western Digital 2TB > disks. Now I'm having critical problems, ranging from the disks > getting stuck, to the box rebooting. > Those are not the main disks in the box, so they are currently > unmounted; I wasn't even able to run newfs on them, since every > process that tries to use these disk will hang after a while (and > can't be killed either). I'd guess this is probably due to their overly-aggressive power management. If you can, run wdidle3.exe from a Windows environment to turn off the default idle timer. -- Bruce Cran