On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 3:24 PM, Jens Dueholm Christensen <[email protected]> wrote: > Update the firmware on your disks. > > I've had the same happen to a raid 1 with a R200 with a couple of 740GB SATA > drives connected to a SAS 6/iR. > > The firmware on my drives were not current, and the latest SAS/SATA Hard > Drive Firmware Utility (R239489) had a fix mentioned as:
Thanks, unfortunately the disk FW update was one of the first things we discounted as these had already been done. The disks have been updated as they're a mix of Dell branded Seagate disks (which were updated to MA08 due to the Seagate 'death on reboot' bug some time ago), Dell Branded WD disks (no update available for these P/Ns) and the direct Seagate/WD (non-Dell branded) disks of the same model. The Seagate ones have been updated with the Seagate FW update. Having taken a look on the Seagate forums I can see lots of reports of issues with their disks at the moment, which is far from encouraging: http://forums.seagate.com/stx/board/message?board.id=ata_drives&thread.id=11184&view=by_date_ascending&page=1 (and also: http://forums.seagate.com/stx/board?board.id=ata_drives ) This isn't specific to Dell (link is actually to 3ware) but sounds to me as if Seagate are releasing FW updates to claw back sectors for remapping in disks which have reliability problems. Again this is really worrying: http://www.3ware.com/kb/article.aspx?id=15531 _______________________________________________ Linux-PowerEdge mailing list [email protected] https://lists.us.dell.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-poweredge Please read the FAQ at http://lists.us.dell.com/faq
