Mike Dresser wrote: > > On Fri, 23 Jun 2006, Molle Bestefich wrote: > > > Christian Pernegger wrote: > >> Anything specific wrong with the Maxtors? > > > > I'd watch out regarding the Western Digital disks, apparently they > > have a bad habit of turning themselves off when used in RAID mode, for > > some reason: > > http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.device-mapper.devel/1980/ > > The MaxLine III's (7V300F0) with VA111630/670 firmware currently timeout > on a weekly or less basis.. I'm still testing VA111680 on a 15x300 gig > array > We also see similar problem on Maxtor 6V250F0 drives: they 'crash' randomly at a weeks timescale. Only way to get them back is by power cycling. Tried both SuperMicro SATA card (Marvell chip) and Promise Fastrak, firmware updates from Maxtor did not fix it yet. We were already forced to exchange all drives at a customer because he does not want to use Maxtor's anymore. Neither do we :( Bart - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
