Re: The read and write timeouts story, next stage...

[Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>]

On Sun, Dec 20, 2009 at 02:19:29PM +0200, Teemu Rinta-aho wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I have been reporting here my battle with the read and write timeouts
> from SATA drives. Now I managed to try the drives on a 3rd PC, where
> completely everything is different from the previous 2 PCs with which
> I have had the problem. And the problem is still there! (The third PC
> is about one month old, with Asus P7P55D motherboard, Core i7 860 CPU,
> 750W PSU etc.)
> 
> It seems that I can reproduce write timeouts with the Intel Mini-ITX
> by building the NetBSD source. On Core 2 I get read timeouts when
> I let the raidframe do a parity check on the RAID-1 set. On Core i7
> I got a write timeout when I did a rebuild of the other drive in the
> RAID-1 set.
> 
> Now I am bored of finding new pieces of hardware to try to make the
> problem go away and was wondering if anyone has a similar setup that
> I am having and could try if he or she can reproduce the problem.
> 
> My setup is: two 1TB SATA2 drives configured to RAID-1 using

What brand of drive is it ?

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