On 14 Jun 2006, Arno Wagner wrote: > > WD drives are misdesigned in some way that they need sometimes > very long to respond to commands. I think it is a quality issue. > WD itself has "RAID ready" drives that don't do this. > > I have run TB sized arrays of Seagate and Maxtor drives with > Linux software RAID for years now and never, ever had this issue. > My advice is to dump the WD drives and get others. I was _really_ hoping it wouldn't have to come to that. But I honestly don't get it. If the drives behave when accessed individually, what is it that software raid does so differently that makes them act like this? Kind regards, Tom Wirschell -- dm-devel@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/dm-devel
