Re: Ok to go ahead with this setup?

["bart@ardistech.com" <bart@ardistech.com>]

Christian Pernegger wrote:
> 
> > The MaxLine III's (7V300F0) with VA111630/670 firmware currently timeout
> > on a weekly or less basis..
> 
> I have just one 7V300F0, so no idea how it behaves is a RAID. It's
> been fine apart from the fact that my VIA southbridge SATA controllers
> doesn't even detect it ... :(
>
You'll need a drive firmware update for this..

> (Anyone else notice compatibility problems are through the roof lately?)
> 
Yes, the manufacturers are busy with SATAII while SATAI still not being stable....

> The 8x 6B300R0 (PATA) have been excellent on my PATA 3ware.
> Untypically for Maxtor, not one has died yet (over a year) :)
> 
> The 8x 6Y120L0 (PATA) died at a rate of about two a year.
> 
> I mainly use Maxtor due to the fact that the RMA process is automated,
> hassle-free and fast. They will exchange a drive when the first bad
> sector errors start to show up and not insist on a low level format to
> "fix" the problem.
> 
They did not offer to exchage our +30 drives that are having timeouts....