Drive failures with ada on FreeBSD-9.1, driver bug or wiring issue?

[Dr Josef Karthauser]

On 18 Jul 2013, at 13:07, Andrea Venturoli <ml at netfence.it> wrote:

> Perhaps they are WD Green drives?

They're WD RE2-GP 1 TB drives (model WD1000FYPS) , not sure if that's green or not.

> In that case, other than quoting Bob's suggestion about avoiding them, there's something you can do:
> a) turn off the drives' power-saving features (this is done through a DOS utility you can download);
> b) try different controllers and/or different OS releases.

I'm committed to FreeBSD, as the machine is already rolled out and in a data centre ;).

> You'll find a lot on this problem if you search the web.
> There's also a report of mine you can search on this ML, regarding FreeBSD specifically.

I'll see if I can find it. Thanks.

Joe