From: Roman Mamedov <rm@romanrm.ru>
To: Eyal Lebedinsky <eyal@eyal.emu.id.au>
Cc: linux-raid list <linux-raid@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Samsung HD204UI (2TB F4EG) disk vs smart
Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2011 03:00:52 +0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110216030052.5d9878cf@natsu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4D5AF2EB.3060809@eyal.emu.id.au>
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On Wed, 16 Feb 2011 08:40:59 +1100
Eyal Lebedinsky <eyal@eyal.emu.id.au> wrote:
> In the end the problem turned out to be the disks. It seems that these
> popular (cheap) disks have a firmware bug that causes bad writes if a
> specific smart command is issued at the right (wrong) time.
>
> There is a fw fix but I found it not widely advertised. It can be found
> here
> http://www.samsung.com/global/business/hdd/faqView.do?b2b_bbs_msg_id=386
> Unfortunately it does *not* change the fw revision so you will not know
> if your disk has the patch applied or not. I just applied it and so far
> so good. My fw rev was (and still is) 1AQ10001.
You are right. Here is the most comprehensive documentation on this issue:
http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/smartmontools/wiki/SamsungF4EGBadBlocks
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With respect,
Roman
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2011-02-15 21:40 Samsung HD204UI (2TB F4EG) disk vs smart Eyal Lebedinsky
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