From: Phil Turmel <philip@turmel.org>
To: Keith Keller <kkeller@wombat.san-francisco.ca.us>
Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Please Help! RAID5 -> 6 reshapre gone bad
Date: Mon, 06 Feb 2012 22:38:27 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4F309CB3.2080400@turmel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <k4i609x025.ln2@goaway.wombat.san-francisco.ca.us>
On 02/06/2012 10:24 PM, Keith Keller wrote:
> On 2012-02-07, Phil Turmel <philip@turmel.org> wrote:
>>
>> I understand the constraints, as I pinch pennies at home and at the
>> office (I own my engineering firm). I've made do with cheap desktop
>> drives that do support ERC. I got burned when Seagate dropped ERC on
>> their latest desktop drives. Hitachi Deskstar is the only affordable
>> model on the market that still support ERC.
>
> I can testify that the EARS/EADS drives can be troublesome (see my
> recent threads on the list). I also found out that apparently the
> flooding in Thailand is delaying all drive vendors' enterprise drives--
> they seem to be one of the few factories that make an essential part,
> and their factories are all underwater.
>
> Have others had success with mdraid and the Deskstar drives? I wouldn't
> mind saving a little money if the drives will actually work, especially
> if I can get them in before April (the earliest one vendor thinks
> they might be able to start building drives again).
Ow. I haven't actually bought any yet... I was hoping the prices would
come down before I needed to. Sounds like I'll be waiting longer than
I expected.
But, I reviewed the OEM documentation for the 7K3000 family, and they
clearly document support for the SCT ERC commands (para 9.18.1.2).
Phil
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-02-07 3:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-02-07 1:34 Please Help! RAID5 -> 6 reshapre gone bad Richard Herd
2012-02-07 2:15 ` Phil Turmel
[not found] ` <CAOANJV955ZdLexRTjVkQzTMapAaMitq5eqxP0rUvDjjLh4Wgzw@mail.gmail.com>
2012-02-07 2:57 ` Phil Turmel
2012-02-07 3:10 ` Richard Herd
2012-02-07 3:24 ` Keith Keller
2012-02-07 3:38 ` Phil Turmel [this message]
2012-01-31 6:31 ` rebuild raid6 after two failures Keith Keller
2012-02-01 4:42 ` Keith Keller
2012-02-01 5:31 ` NeilBrown
2012-02-01 5:48 ` Keith Keller
2012-02-03 16:08 ` using dd (or dd_rescue) to salvage array Keith Keller
2012-02-04 18:01 ` Stefan /*St0fF*/ Hübner
2012-02-05 19:10 ` Keith Keller
2012-02-06 21:37 ` Stefan *St0fF* Huebner
2012-02-07 3:44 ` Keith Keller
2012-02-07 4:24 ` Keith Keller
2012-02-07 20:01 ` Stefan *St0fF* Huebner
2012-02-08 7:13 ` Please Help! RAID5 -> 6 reshapre gone bad Stan Hoeppner
2012-02-07 3:04 ` Fwd: " Richard Herd
2012-02-07 2:39 ` NeilBrown
2012-02-07 3:10 ` NeilBrown
2012-02-07 3:19 ` Richard Herd
2012-02-07 3:39 ` NeilBrown
2012-02-07 3:50 ` Richard Herd
2012-02-07 4:25 ` NeilBrown
2012-02-07 5:02 ` Richard Herd
2012-02-07 5:16 ` NeilBrown
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