SATA RAID Support

[Oliver Brandmueller]

Hi.

On Fri, Feb 25, 2005 at 12:18:51PM -0800, David G. Lawrence wrote:
> Answer	
>  	Problem: 
> WD EIDE drives are dropped from an IDE RAID array or system after several
> days or weeks of error-free operation.

Of course I looked at 3ware, at WD and in google to find to find an 
answer. I found both the articles you posted.

One applies to PATA drives, which we don't have. It gives no hint about 
software versions for SATA drives and I did not find a firmware upgrade 
at WD either.

The other one applies to SATA drives. When I found this, I checked with 
smartctl in another machine (smartctl does not see single drives on the 
3ware) all the RAID drives. Acoustic management was disabled on all 
disks. This does not really surprise me, though. 10 krpm disks are 
probably meant for servers and to deliver high performance - switching 
on acoustic management by default on these drives would not be very 
smart.

Thanx anyway,

		Oliver

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