On Sun, Dec 13, 2009 at 5:27 PM, Todd Lyons <[email protected]> wrote: > > ... The firmware is supposed to be fixed in the > latest released drives that the Tivo uses, double check that there > hasn't been a really recent firmware release since you last updated > your firmware. >
Having seen the warning about updating the firmware and destroying RAID configs combined with the problem reports and performance issues we've seen, I think I'll just swap out the disks for other brands and deal with the firmware updates when I can be as destructive as I want. Since the original post I've seen identical dropouts of Dell-supplied WD Enterprise model disks, too. In these cases the disks showed reallocated sectors in their SMART data, but were below the SMART failure threshold. I think the 'wrong' disks don't help reliability, but on the whole the fact the SAS6i/R is a low end largely software based RAID card means that events such as sector remapping and TLER are not shielded well from the OS and drivers, resulting in the disks dropping out of sync or causing errors, rather than it all being handled by the card hardware and therefore largely invisible to the OS. You get what you pay for - as they say. _______________________________________________ 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
