On Tue, 6 Feb 2007, Bruce Allen wrote:

Here is an important firmware update for WDC WDXXXXYS series drives on RAID controllers. Without this update you will see period drive dropouts

...

The new problem seems to be related to the SMART auto offline test which the drive periodically runs to update its SMART data. But this is just an educated guess based on what WDC has written in their FAQ.

I take it it isn't an issue with md raid?  Linux can monitor via smartd
and not get confused, we can hope?

   rgb


Cheers,
        Bruce
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