On Saturday 24 December 2005 14:34, Patrick Freeman wrote: <snippage>
...But now with up to 40 machines all getting the same treatment, between 30 and 60 % will hang on initrd after I run mkinitrd.
Does this mean 12 have exhibited this behavior (30% of 40) or 24 (60% of 40)? If I were going to investigate the drive subsystems, I would: - verify the quality of the power supplies and the data cables. - check for poorly designed cases not allowing proper ventillation. - ensure all drives have the same *current* firmware installed. - ditto the mainboards and add-in controllers - plan on a realistic 2% to 3% field failure rate in the first 30 to 90 days. (no OEM can afford to burn-in and stress-test every single drive) FYI: I used to sell between $1 and $2 Million in drives a year into the RISC/UNIX market. I've never purchased a WD drive, nor have I strayed from Seagate. I've never regretted that decision. Finally, I think you're going to have a real hard time pointing fingers back at WD since you haven't clearly ruled out the HighPoint driver that you're compiling. HTH & regards, - Carl