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Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2003 18:25:08 -0700
From: "Jeff V. Merkey" <jmerkey@vger.timpanogas.org>
To: Larry McVoy <lm@work.bitmover.com>, Steven Pritchard <steve@silug.org>,
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Subject: Re: 3ware driver errors
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The person at WD to contact with specifics is listed below.  We have seen it 
on the 180GB drives, but the 200GB are also affected.

Suresh.Chekuri@wdc.com

Jeff

On Mon, Mar 24, 2003 at 03:44:10PM -0800, Larry McVoy wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 24, 2003 at 06:01:07PM -0700, Jeff V. Merkey wrote:
> > There is a firmware upgrade you need to obtain from WD if you are using their 
> > drives with a 3Ware controller.  The WD drives were optimized for desktop use
> > and they go into a "powersave" mode of sorts which will cause them to disappear
> > and reappear mysteriously with all sorts of strange errors.  WD is aware of 
> > this problem and so is 3Ware.
> 
> Is this for all WD drives or just some?  I've got some wd400 drives that 
> I've been using for a long time behind a 3ware in jbod mode.  I have seen
> some errors but they seem to have settled down.  Is there any way to know?
> -- 
> ---
> Larry McVoy              lm at bitmover.com          http://www.bitmover.com/lm
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