Best IDE RAID5 solution for FreeBSD 5.2 ?

[Dmitry Alyabyev]

hi

almost the same happened to me with Promise RAID card and couple of IDE WDs 
(100..120GB). 
finally I found that the source of these problems was noise-reduction feature 
that is turned on on some IDE disks which were probably designed for 
desktops. so I upgraded firmware on all WDs to turn it off - and voila - it 
works just fine !

details here: 
http://wdc.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/wdc.cfg/php/enduser/std_adp.php?p_faqid=913&p_created=1047068027

hope this helps

-- 
Dimitry

 
On Tuesday 09 March 2004 03:58, Adrian wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm having lots of trouble with 3ware RAID
> cards and would like to know what other
> people are using..
>
> I basically just need to be able to rebuild
> degraded arrays remotely (from FreeBSD) as
> I don't always have console access to the
> machines and can't power-cycle them.
>
> I have various versions of the 3Ware cards
> (mainly 7006).  After a while one of the drives
> will degrade.  If I rebuild it, the same drive
> just degrades again soon after.   I've replaced
> everything from the HD to RAID card, motherboard
> and cables - but in the end I have to format the
> array and rebuild the machine from scratch but
> then after a while it starts doing the same thing..
> This is happening on FreeBSD versions 4.8->5.2
> and across completely different hardware (though
> I've only ever used Maxtor IDE drives).
>
> Any help / suggestions would be appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
> Adrian.
>
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