On 21 May 2010, at 09:21, Charles Sprickman wrote:

> On Fri, 21 May 2010, Bob Bishop wrote:
> 
>> Hi,
>> 
>> On 21 May 2010, at 09:04, Charles Sprickman wrote:
>> 
>>> Hello all,
>>> 
>>> [...]I have a box (Dell PE 2970) running FreeBSD 7.2/amd-64.  6 GB of ECC 
>>> RAM, and a Dell-branded LSI RAID controller (mpt driver). [tale of woe 
>>> elided]
>> 
>> For any case of spooky behaviour involving SCSI, make completely sure that 
>> the SCSI cabling is above suspicion. If it isn't, your sanity will be the 
>> first casualty.
> 
> FWIW, this is SATA.  [etc]

I've had problems with some SATA drives either going `not ready' for a short 
time, or not going ready within the time expected by the controller. This can 
make some RAID controllers drop the disk for instance. As discussed elsewhere, 
error handling by some drivers leaves something to be desired.

--
Bob Bishop
r...@gid.co.uk




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