Re: ATA trouble again

2011-11-23 Thread Andrea Venturoli
On 11/16/11 13:13, Pegasus Mc Cleaft wrote: or do you know if the drives are using 4096 bytes Per sector? How do I find out without physical access to the box? The only way to be sure is to look at the datasheet for the drive. If the drives are SMART capable, you can always load Smar

Re: ATA trouble again

2011-11-16 Thread Warren Block
On Wed, 16 Nov 2011, Andrea Venturoli wrote: On 11/16/11 12:23, Pegasus Mc Cleaft wrote: Are you using ZFS? No. I'm using gstripe. or do you know if the drives are using 4096 bytes Per sector? How do I find out without physical access to the box? diskinfo -v /dev/ada0 Althou

Re: ATA trouble again

2011-11-16 Thread Andrea Venturoli
On 11/16/11 12:23, Pegasus Mc Cleaft wrote: Are you using ZFS? No. I'm using gstripe. or do you know if the drives are using 4096 bytes Per sector? How do I find out without physical access to the box? bye & Thanks av. ___ f

RE: ATA trouble again

2011-11-16 Thread Pegasus Mc Cleaft
>Hello. > >This is a follow-up of a previous thread, which can be found here: > >> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2011-July/232257. >> html > > > >I finally have two working WD Green drives: they have run severel times >for more than a few days continuosly and I've run their f

ATA trouble again

2011-11-16 Thread Andrea Venturoli
Hello. This is a follow-up of a previous thread, which can be found here: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2011-July/232257.html I finally have two working WD Green drives: they have run severel times for more than a few days continuosly and I've run their full diags a