Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 24 Mar 2003 18:25:08 -0700 | From | "Jeff V. Merkey" <> | Subject | Re: 3ware driver errors |
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The person at WD to contact with specifics is listed below. We have seen it on the 180GB drives, but the 200GB are also affected.
Suresh.Chekuri@wdc.com
Jeff
On Mon, Mar 24, 2003 at 03:44:10PM -0800, Larry McVoy wrote: > 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? > -- > --- > Larry McVoy lm at bitmover.com http://www.bitmover.com/lm - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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