* Jeremy Chadwick ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
* I'm left questioning why a disk manufacturer would process drives
(by this I mean the manufacturing process) differently based on their
transport type. It would cost a *huge* amount of money to have
separate fabs for SCSI, SAS, and SATA/PATA.
Jeremy Chadwick wrote:
* Hard disks are growing in capacity, but are not growing in physical
size. We're pushing 1TB in a 3.5 form factor. And the same applies to
laptop (2.5) drives. The margin of error continues to increase as we
try to cram more and more data in such a small medium.
Bill Swingle wrote:
I have a fileserver that currently has a 4-disc raid connected to an
IDE 3ware card. I had hoped to replace this dying system with a pair
of synchronized 1TB SATA drives. When trying to newfs them both
eventually failed with DMA READ or WRITE timeouts. Here's some infos:
On Tuesday 24 July 2007, Daniel O'Connor wrote:
On Tue, 24 Jul 2007, Jeremy Chadwick wrote:
On Mon, Jul 23, 2007 at 07:40:21PM -0700, Bill Swingle wrote:
Doh, I knew I forgot something in my original email.
Here's the full dmesg: http://dub.net/rum.dub.net.dmesg
Actually you did
On Tue, Jul 24, 2007 at 12:30:49PM -0500, Josh Paetzel wrote:
I don't have any experience with the Hitachi 1TB SATA drives, but I
know an outfit that was trying out the Seagate 1TB drives and had 8
out of 12 fail their burn-in (a 3 day torture test) My luck with
consumer SATA drives has
On Tue, Jul 24, 2007 at 11:26:04AM -0700, Jeremy Chadwick wrote..
On Tue, Jul 24, 2007 at 12:30:49PM -0500, Josh Paetzel wrote:
I don't have any experience with the Hitachi 1TB SATA drives, but I
know an outfit that was trying out the Seagate 1TB drives and had 8
out of 12 fail their
On Tuesday 24 July 2007, Jeremy Chadwick wrote:
* SCSI is outrageously expensive even in 2007. I have yet to see
any shred of justification for why SCSI costs so much *even today*.
It costs only a smidgen less than it did 15 years ago.
* SCSI is on its way out. Seagate recently announced
Hi, all!
To add fuel to the fire, Seagate *again* sent me a refurbished drive
(and I used their advanced replacement program), which has sat in a box
unopened since received. I ended up buying two WD 500GB drives to
replace the single Seagate; one of the drives is used for nothing other
Wilko Bulte wrote:
On Tue, Jul 24, 2007 at 11:26:04AM -0700, Jeremy Chadwick wrote..
On Tue, Jul 24, 2007 at 12:30:49PM -0500, Josh Paetzel wrote:
I don't have any experience with the Hitachi 1TB SATA drives, but I
know an outfit that was trying out the Seagate 1TB drives and had 8
out of
Josh Paetzel wrote:
On Tuesday 24 July 2007, Jeremy Chadwick wrote:
* SCSI is outrageously expensive even in 2007. I have yet to see
any shred of justification for why SCSI costs so much *even today*.
It costs only a smidgen less than it did 15 years ago.
* SCSI is on its way out.
At 08:44 PM 7/23/2007, Bill Swingle wrote:
After several tries I was able to get both disks newfs'd and mounted
but they quickly fell down with DMA timeouts. On one occasion the
machine actually panic'd too:
Hi,
What options do you have set in the BIOS for the sata
controller ? Do
Hello all,
I've run across a problem that I hope someone can aid me with.
I have a fileserver that currently has a 4-disc raid connected to an IDE 3ware card. I had hoped to
replace this dying system with a pair of synchronized 1TB SATA drives. When trying to newfs them
both eventually failed
On Tue, 24 Jul 2007, Bill Swingle wrote:
I've read that bad SATA cables could cause this, the cables I'm using
are brand new but are probably pretty cheap.
Unlike they're both faulty too..
You need to post your dmesg otherwise we have no idea what controller
you're using..
--
Daniel
Doh, I knew I forgot something in my original email.
Here's the full dmesg: http://dub.net/rum.dub.net.dmesg
Here's the controller info:
atapci1: Intel ICH5 SATA150 controller port
0xec00-0xec07,0xe800-0xe803,0xe400-0xe407,0xe000-0xe003,0xdc00-0xdc0f irq 18 at device 31.2 on pci0
ata2: ATA
On Mon, Jul 23, 2007 at 07:40:21PM -0700, Bill Swingle wrote:
Doh, I knew I forgot something in my original email.
Here's the full dmesg: http://dub.net/rum.dub.net.dmesg
Actually you did include this in your original Email. I think Daniel
overlooked it. :-)
After looking at your dmesg and
On Tue, 24 Jul 2007, Jeremy Chadwick wrote:
On Mon, Jul 23, 2007 at 07:40:21PM -0700, Bill Swingle wrote:
Doh, I knew I forgot something in my original email.
Here's the full dmesg: http://dub.net/rum.dub.net.dmesg
Actually you did include this in your original Email. I think Daniel
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