Date: Thu, 2 Jun 2011 13:13:24 -0700 (PDT) From: Mark <redtick@sbcglobal.net> To: help help <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Critical issues with WD green drives Message-ID: <249574.99100.qm@web81202.mail.mud.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <BANLkTinDm8KFo429kS4_RBdpo2b7WKHxBw@mail.gmail.com>
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--- On Thu, 6/2/11, Reid Linnemann <lreid@cs.okstate.edu> wrote: > From: Reid Linnemann <lreid@cs.okstate.edu> > Subject: Re: Critical issues with WD green drives > To: "Bruce Cran" <bruce@cran.org.uk> > Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Date: Thursday, June 2, 2011, 11:02 AM > On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 9:54 AM, Bruce > Cran <bruce@cran.org.uk> > wrote: > > On Thu, 02 Jun 2011 14:16:01 +0200 > > Andrea Venturoli <ml@netfence.it> > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > > 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" > > > > I've gotten similar errors before with a failing power > supply. After > an electrical storm I started getting HD errors all over > the place. I > replaced drives, futzed with SATA cables, booted, rebooted, > and when > the machine got stable finally I just tried to leave it > alone. Finally > I bought a new atom board, thinking that some component on > the > mainboard had been killed by the storm. Problems persisted > until my > mini-itx case came in with a fresh (less powerful) power > supply. My "duh" moment not too long ago. I found that the sata power "adapters" had pins that were to small for a proper connection to the power supply.
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