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From: Larry McVoy <lm@bitmover.com>
To: "Jeff V. Merkey" <jmerkey@vger.timpanogas.org>
Cc: Steven Pritchard <steve@silug.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 3ware driver errors
Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2003 15:44:10 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030324234410.GB10520@work.bitmover.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030324180107.A14746@vger.timpanogas.org>

On Mon, Mar 24, 2003 at 06:01:07PM -0700, Jeff V. Merkey wrote:
> There is a firmware upgrade you need to obtain from WD if you are using their 
> drives with a 3Ware controller.  The WD drives were optimized for desktop use
> and they go into a "powersave" mode of sorts which will cause them to disappear
> and reappear mysteriously with all sorts of strange errors.  WD is aware of 
> this problem and so is 3Ware.

Is this for all WD drives or just some?  I've got some wd400 drives that 
I've been using for a long time behind a 3ware in jbod mode.  I have seen
some errors but they seem to have settled down.  Is there any way to know?
-- 
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Larry McVoy              lm at bitmover.com          http://www.bitmover.com/lm

  reply	other threads:[~2003-03-24 23:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-03-24 21:28 3ware driver errors Steven Pritchard
2003-03-25  1:01 ` Jeff V. Merkey
2003-03-24 23:44   ` Larry McVoy [this message]
2003-03-25  0:07     ` Mark Hahn
2003-03-25  1:25     ` Jeff V. Merkey
2003-03-25  3:12       ` Steven Pritchard
2003-03-25  3:11         ` Kevin P. Fleming
2003-03-25 15:25         ` Ezra Nugroho
2003-03-25 15:26           ` Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk
2003-03-25 16:26             ` Ezra Nugroho
2003-03-27 16:02       ` ECC error in 2.5.64 + some patches Larry McVoy
2003-03-27 16:17         ` Tim Schmielau
2003-03-27 16:27           ` Larry McVoy
2003-03-27 16:39             ` Tim Schmielau
2003-03-27 16:22         ` Randy.Dunlap
2003-03-27 16:31           ` Larry McVoy
2003-03-28  0:10             ` Dave Jones
2003-03-27 16:31         ` Dave Jones
2003-03-27 17:00         ` Chris Wedgwood
2003-03-27 17:19           ` Dominik Kubla
2003-03-27 17:25             ` Chris Wedgwood
2003-04-15  4:34               ` Bill Davidsen
2003-04-15 13:24             ` Larry McVoy
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-03-24 21:44 3ware driver errors Adam Radford
2003-03-25  1:02 ` Jeff V. Merkey

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