From owner-freebsd-hardware Sun Nov 11 12:39:47 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from blotto.phreak.net (blotto.phreak.net [207.250.188.230]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CBE8E37B405 for ; Sun, 11 Nov 2001 12:39:44 -0800 (PST) Received: from phreak.net (localhost.phreak.net [127.0.0.1]) by blotto.phreak.net (Postfix) with SMTP id 4E4F5189501; Sun, 11 Nov 2001 14:39:52 -0600 (CST) Received: from 65.25.176.231 (SquirrelMail authenticated user operator) by mail.phreak.net with HTTP; Sun, 11 Nov 2001 14:39:52 -0600 (CST) Message-ID: <4135.65.25.176.231.1005511192.squirrel@mail.phreak.net> Date: Sun, 11 Nov 2001 14:39:52 -0600 (CST) Subject: Re: requesting opinions about strange 3ware problem From: "Steve Kaczkowski" To: jose@we.lc.ehu.es In-Reply-To: <20011111151209.A319@v-ger.we.lc.ehu.es> References: <20011111151209.A319@v-ger.we.lc.ehu.es> Cc: hardware@FreeBSD.org X-Mailer: SquirrelMail (version 1.0.6) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > Warning: this is a long message. > > At the end of past July, I installed a 3ware Escalade 7410 RAID > controller with four IBM DTLA-307075 (75 GB) disks attached in RAID-5 > configuration. Everything worked fine for two months, until I installed > the new version of the 3dm utility (I did not installed it before, > because its previous version did not support the Escalade 7xxx series). > Once 3dm was installed everything looked OK. However, some hours later > (at 3:02 AM), an error was detected in one of the ports of the RAID > unit ("drive error... check for cables or media errors". I rebooted the > system, entered the 3ware BIOS and started a rebuild of the RAID-5 > unit, which was completed about two or three hours later. I don't > believe on casuality, so I suspected (and I still suspect) that the 3dm > utility "did something" that triggered the error. > ... All sorts of stuff deleted ... If I'm not mistaken *all* of the 75GXPs have problems with corruption due to how tightly they're packing the data on the platters.. Do some searching on google or storagereview.com, I'm sure you'll find a whole bunch of info.. And of course IBM doesn't care to admit to anything Regards, -- Steve Kaczkowski operator@phreak.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message