Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-kernel (75 mails)

["Brian K. White" <brian@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 3/10/2011 2:05 PM, Greg KH wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 07:38:49PM +0100, EXTERNAL Konold Martin (Firma, 
> RtP2/TEF72) wrote:
> > Hi Greg,
> >
> > > From: Greg KH [mailto:gregkh@xxxxxxx]
> >
> > > > I also experience severe data loss whenever such an error occurs.
> > >
> > > Perhaps you have a failing drive?
> >
> > I hooked up another WD drive WDC WD5002ABYS-02B1B0 from a different familiy 
> > instead
> > of the failing drive WDC WD3200AAJS-60Z0A0 to one of the failing machines and 
> > doing endless kiwi builds.
> >
> > Sofar it is working since about 4 hours with an otherwise unmodified setup.
> >
> > Can the observed error be explained with a firmware bug?
>
> Possibly.
>
> > All failing machines have drives from the same family either WDC 
> > WD2500AAJS-60M0A0 or WDC WD3200AAJS-60Z0A0.
> >
> > (Yes I validated that a failing drive had the most recent available firmware 
> > 03.03E03)
>
> Sounds like a bad drive family :(
>
> As you have fixed it by changing the drive, I suggest not using those
> other models anymore.

He had no problems at all on 10.2 .

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bkw

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