Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S965231AbWHOT1M (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Aug 2006 15:27:12 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S965230AbWHOT1L (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Aug 2006 15:27:11 -0400 Received: from smtp.nildram.co.uk ([195.112.4.54]:24338 "EHLO smtp.nildram.co.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S965231AbWHOT1K (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Aug 2006 15:27:10 -0400 From: Alistair John Strachan To: Mike Dresser Subject: Re: Daily crashes, incorrect RAID behaviour Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2006 20:27:09 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.4 Cc: Carsten Otto , linux-kernel References: <13e988610608150436y6812f623p9919b2d5b1989427@mail.gmail.com> <13e988610608150831u18ed0e85s50fe3a865548a865@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200608152027.09880.s0348365@sms.ed.ac.uk> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1205 Lines: 30 On Tuesday 15 August 2006 19:28, Mike Dresser wrote: > On Tue, 15 Aug 2006, Carsten Otto wrote: > > Okay, after Ralf's message I found this newsgroup post: > > http://groups.google.de/group/linux.debian.user/msg/f12dec920523a629?hl=d > >e& > > > >> You should be aware that currently > >> Maxtor Maxline III's(7v300F0's) do not work properly due to a firmware > >> bug. The current version shipping is VA111630, an update is available > >> to VA111670 which merely reduces the frequency of timeouts that get the > >> drive kicked out from the array. > > I'm running 680 now, and the 15 drives have been up for something like two > months or so without issues at all.. Seems like the firmware fixes the > problem. Still, the RAID rebuild problem is worrying. I might have to deliberately fault my RAID5 partitions and see if they rebuild correctly.. -- Cheers, Alistair. Final year Computer Science undergraduate. 1F2 55 South Clerk Street, Edinburgh, UK. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/