Date: Thu, 2 Jun 2011 15:54:52 +0100 From: Bruce Cran <bruce@cran.org.uk> To: Andrea Venturoli <ml@netfence.it> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Critical issues with WD green drives Message-ID: <20110602155452.00006775@unknown> In-Reply-To: <4DE77F01.1050900@netfence.it> References: <4DE77F01.1050900@netfence.it>
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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
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