From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Bill Davidsen Subject: Re: Ninth(?) Velociraptor replacement or md(RAID)/smartmontools(?) bug? Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2008 12:55:26 -0500 Message-ID: <4926F60E.6040104@tmr.com> References: <49269BCF.8060300@rabbit.us> <20081121115415.6c872f11@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Justin Piszcz Cc: Alan Cox , Peter Rabbitson , linux-raid , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, martmontools-support@lists.sourceforge.net, Bruce Allen , westerndigital@custhelp.com, Alan Piszcz List-Id: linux-raid.ids Justin Piszcz wrote: > > > On Fri, 21 Nov 2008, Alan Cox wrote: > >>> Oct 27 11:33:41 Arzamas kernel: ata6.00: error: { IDNF ABRT } >> >> Different error. IDNF -> ID not found >> > > So the only thing in common is WD disks. I don't know at this point.. > NCQ with > WD disks (at least raptor150s/300s) is completely broken and I have to > disable > it to use the disks without NCQ errors and dropping out of arrays (on > 3 diff) > systems with different chipsets, p35, 965. > > This guy has the same errors I do when I enable NCQ. It seems like WD > raptors > should be blacklisted from using NCQ in the kernel. > > NCQ: http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/10/17/380 > > Concerning my error specifically: > > How much time have you spent replacing and RMA'ing disks? Personally > for me > I spent $3600 on new velociraptors but after having spend hours, days > with > doing testing, replacing, I have spent much more in time than the > drives are > worth. I am really getting sick and tired of it, every few days or > every week > its another drive failure (or more). What are you plans, just keep > RMA'ing and hopefully they'll find the bug and fix it or just give up > and build a new system for production and the RMA'ing can be a hobby > in another system? > > What I meant when I asked did you buy them new, was, did you buy them > recently, > because with the raptor150s I have in another system, all 1+ year old, > bought > new but I wonder if they changed something in their firmware to cause > this > problem, when I opened a case with WD about the issue and spoke with > someone > in India they are only setup to answer basic questions and anything > complicated > you will get canned answer: "RMA." > > Time to dump WD raptor drives? > > I will note I am using several 750GiB drives without any issue whether > NCQ is enabled or disabled in various raid and non-raid configurations. > > Comments--buggy raptors? Well I guess I will have some data points after the weekend... I just got a new WD 1TB on sale from Newegg, and I'm going to be using it raid10 with a raid0 of a pair of Seagate 500GB, and expect to beat it somewhat severely moving data from place to place. -- Bill Davidsen "Woe unto the statesman who makes war without a reason that will still be valid when the war is over..." Otto von Bismark