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.
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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