Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2003 14:19:41 -0500 From: Keith Mitchell <kmitch@guru.org> To: "Douglas K. Rand" <rand@meridian-enviro.com> Cc: Shaun Dwyer <shaun@crystal.com.au>, Lanny Baron <lnb@FreeBSDsystems.com>, Soeren Schmidt <sos@spider.deepcore.dk>, "randall s. ehren" <randall@ucsb.edu>, freebsd-hardware <freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG, sos@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ATA problems (still) Message-ID: <3E2C4BCD.7090604@guru.org> References: <200301151238.h0FCcD5e025929@spider.deepcore.dk> <1042677925.19537.42.camel@panda.FreeBSDsystems.COM> <3E2B4432.3080705@crystal.com.au> <874r83zldh.fsf@delta.meridian-enviro.com>
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Douglas K. Rand wrote: >Shaun> Hi all... > >Hi! > >Shaun> I have a box with 6 WD 80Gb BB series drives on a 3ware >Shaun> Escalade raid controller doing raid 5. Every now and then a >Shaun> drives seem to drop from the array for no reason. Its always a >Shaun> different drive, on a different port. Mabye the later WD drives >Shaun> have some issues. Perhaps overly aggressive timing? > >We had very similiar problems with WD 100 GB (WD1000BB) disks on a >3ware controller. We'd get this error for no apparent reason: > > twe0: AEN: <twed0: drive timeout> > >It turns out that there is some bios incompatability between the 3ware >controller and these WD disks. Once I found the right person at 3ware >and described my problem, he said that its the disks. We switched to >IBM disks and the problem went away. > >I have NO IDEA if the problem is the same on the WD800BB disks. > It sounds like it may be the same problem. Apparently at least several people have been having problems with the newer western digital drives. I just swapped mine out for a Maxtor and so far so good. My system has been up for three days without a problem. Hopefully that switch will get rid of that annoyance for me :-) -- Keith Mitchell Email: kmitch@guru.org PGP key available upon request To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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