From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: John Hendrikx Subject: Re: multiple Sata SATAII 150, TX4 - how to tell which drive is which? headaches galore! Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2006 21:22:04 +0100 Message-ID: <43D53AEC.7060302@xs4all.nl> References: <200601230336.55220.mlaks@verizon.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: PFC Cc: Mitchell Laks , linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids > >> I wanted to ask for any experience with running raid with SATA drives >> and >> controllers here under linux. >> > Maxtor SATA drives series 6V (those with 16 MB cache) are > incompatible with nforce 3-4 SATA controllers. Maxtor acknowledges > this. Symptom is a slow death of the drive, ending with command > timeouts. When reverting the drive to SATA 1.5Gbps with the jumper, it > works perfectly again (for a few days...). nvidia doesn't care. This > is on windows and linux. In windows, you have to use fucking PIO mode > or you get corruptions. nforce4 sata also has problems with plextor > sata burners, and possibly others. I don't have much SATA experience, although a Western Digital WD2500JD-75F seems to work fine with the nforce 4 ultra chipset. > The Maxtor 6L series (with 8 MB cache) work flawlessly. > > I currently have these SATA drives, on a nforce3 MSI mobo : > > # hdparm -I /dev/sd? |grep "Model Numb" > > Model Number: Maxtor 6L200M0 > Model Number: Maxtor 6L250S0 > Model Number: ST3250823AS > Model Number: ST3250823AS > > All work. I RMA'd the 6V250 drive and exchanged it against a good, > old, IDE drive, which works perfect. > > It took me a month, 3 maxtor drives, and nights of googling to > figure this out... > > My gut feeling is that SATA isn't that ready for prime-time after > all... Does SMART work for your SATA drives? Without SMART support I don't really want to get any more SATA drives. Mine reports this: ~$ smartctl -a /dev/sda smartctl version 5.32 Copyright (C) 2002-4 Bruce Allen Home page is http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/ Device: ATA WDC WD2500JD-75F Version: 02.0 Serial number: WD-WMAEH1585485 Device type: disk Local Time is: Mon Jan 23 21:14:56 2006 CET Device does not support SMART Request Sense failed, [Input/output error] Device does not support Error Counter logging [GLTSD (Global Logging Target Save Disable) set. Enable Save with '-S on'] Device does not support Self Test logging