Ben Collver wrote:

> On Fri, Jan 27, 2006 at 02:06:24PM +1100, Simon Burge wrote:
> > I've been lucky recently (touch-wood), but RAIDframe saved my bacon more
> > than once back when I had a series of IBM deathstars go belly up on me.
> > Recovery back then when well - I think the sequence was pretty much:
> 
> Good to hear!  Were those IDE or SCSI deathstars?  If they were IDE, did
> NetBSD repeatedly try to access the bad part, and downgrade the DMA mode
> a few times?

45GB IDE ones.  From memory, they just started getting write errors.  I
can't recall them downgrading DMA modes, but this was a few years ago...

Simon.
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