Christian Pernegger wrote: > > > The MaxLine III's (7V300F0) with VA111630/670 firmware currently timeout > > on a weekly or less basis.. > > I have just one 7V300F0, so no idea how it behaves is a RAID. It's > been fine apart from the fact that my VIA southbridge SATA controllers > doesn't even detect it ... :( > You'll need a drive firmware update for this..
> (Anyone else notice compatibility problems are through the roof lately?) > Yes, the manufacturers are busy with SATAII while SATAI still not being stable.... > The 8x 6B300R0 (PATA) have been excellent on my PATA 3ware. > Untypically for Maxtor, not one has died yet (over a year) :) > > The 8x 6Y120L0 (PATA) died at a rate of about two a year. > > I mainly use Maxtor due to the fact that the RMA process is automated, > hassle-free and fast. They will exchange a drive when the first bad > sector errors start to show up and not insist on a low level format to > "fix" the problem. > They did not offer to exchage our +30 drives that are having timeouts.... - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
