Re: Drive failures with ada on FreeBSD-9.1, driver bug or wiring

On 07/18/13 21:31, Charles Swiger wrote:

> Updating the firmware and increasing the timeout before these spin down
 >  automagically is likely to help, but as Andrea noted, such drives do
 > have quite a history of timeout problems due to excessive head parking
 > and their power conservation attempts.

Just for the record, I've been using them for several months without a 
hitch; it's just a matter of finding the correct settings/firmware/OS 
version/controller.
This is to say you should be able to get them to work, altough you might 
require some luck (or some sort of divination).

  bye
	av.
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