October 17, 2005

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How Cute

There's a bug in the firmware of the Western Digital 200JB (also the 200BB, 180JB and 180BB) such that if you use them with a 3Ware 7000 or 8000 series RAID controller, after a certain amount of time (days or weeks) they will cause a spurious timeout and the controller will consider them to have failed.

Mirroring these drives merely gives you a longer window before they disappear.

Well, at least now I know why half a million files just disappeared.

There's a patch. A patch. For a hard disk. Oh, joy.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 05:24 PM | Comments (4) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

1 Got a link?

Posted by: Any A. Mouse at October 18, 2005 05:57 AM (kCb5q)

2 How lovely. Sounds like the early Pentium error, in a way...
"What's 2+2?"
"3.9, close enough."

Posted by: Wonderduck at October 18, 2005 10:55 AM (mAAjO)

3 I have a Seagate 120MB SATA drive that seems to dislike the Intel 865GBF motherboard. It runs for a while, then disappears at random. It seems to work fine on other PCs.
I just mention this because your story reminded me of the unpleasantness of intermittent drives. I still need to recover the data from that one.

Posted by: Evil Pundit at October 18, 2005 12:12 PM (+2/LZ)

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