On 18 Jul 2013, at 20:31, Charles Swiger <[email protected]> wrote: > On Jul 18, 2013, at 12:13 PM, Dr Josef Karthauser <[email protected]> > wrote: >> On 18 Jul 2013, at 13:07, Andrea Venturoli <[email protected]> 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. > > Yes, those are WDC's Green drives, although they are also the higher grade > version as compared to standard desktop drives which are supposed to have > firmware which plays nice with RAID (TLER, time-limited error recovery). > > Updating the firmware and increasing the timeout before these spin down > automagically is likely to help, but as Andrea noted, such drives do have > quite a history of timeout problems due to excessive head parking and their > power conservation attempts.
They're currently on firmware 02.01B01, btw. Not sure if that's the latest or not. Joe _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
