On 12/15/2009 6:08 PM, Monty wrote: > 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 > > > The SAS6I/R is NOT a software or FRAID card. It's not in the league of the Areca or 3Ware(now LSI) but it's most assuredly not a FRAID card.
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