Re: kern/40569: Faild RAIDframe parity rewrite prevents system shutdown

[Matthias Scheler <tron%zhadum.org.uk@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR kern/40569; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Matthias Scheler <tron%zhadum.org.uk@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Cc: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>
Subject: Re: kern/40569: Faild RAIDframe parity rewrite prevents system shutdown
Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2009 12:16:29 +0000

 On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 12:15:04PM +0000, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
 >  I don't understand why the problem is properly detected and worked
 >  around for wd3, but not for wd2 ? Are wd2 and wd3 identical devices?
 
 Well, almost.
 
 "wd2" is HP's OEM version of the same Seagate drive as "wd3". But the
 HP drive definitely has a different firmware which e.g. doesn't
 enable the write-cache by default.
 
        Kind regards
 
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 Matthias Scheler                                  http://zhadum.org.uk/