state of ide raid

[Mike Tancsa]

At 02:34 PM 16/06/2003 -0400, Charles Sprickman wrote:
>I'll second that.  I have the 3ware two port model and it seems to have
>"burped" and decided one of the disks was dead.  I went to the management
>interface (web-only) and removed/added the "bad" drive and then rebuilt
>the mirror.  Performance was fine during the rebuild.
>
>Now why the one drive went "bad" is a question I cannot answer...
>Supposedly the newest firmware supports SMART, but I don't think the
>FreeBSD driver nor the 3ware web interface do anything with that data.


It does for me. Here is an example warning I get on bad drives.  It also 
logs it to kern via syslog.

SMART Threshold Exceeded condition detected on port 1 on controller ID:0. 
Check drive for media errors. (0xf)

This was from a bad Fujitsu.

         ---Mike