On Sun, Sep 13, 2009 at 1:14 AM, Paul B. Henson <hen...@acm.org> wrote:
> On Sat, 12 Sep 2009, Paul B. Henson wrote:
>
>> In any case, I agree with you that the firmware is buggy; however I
>> disagree with you as to the outcome of that bug. The drive is not
>> returning random garbage, it has *one* byte wrong. Other than that all of
>> the data seems ok, at least to my inexpert eyes. smartctl under Linux
>> issues a warning about that invalid byte and reports everything else ok.
>> Solaris on an x4500 evidentally barfs over that invalid byte and returns
>> garbage.
>
> On another note, my understanding is that the official Sun sold
> and supported SSD for the x4540 is basically just an OEM'd Intel X25-E. Did
> Sun install their own fixed firmware on their version of that drive, or
> does it have the same buggy firmware as the street version? It would be
> funny if you guys were shipping a drive with buggy firmware that just
> happens to work because the x4540 hardware doesn't trip over the one
> invalid byte :)...

Perhaps some of their fixes have made it upstream.  Your message at
http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/fm-discuss/2009-June/000436.html
from June 10 suggests you are running firmware release (045C)8626.  On
August 11 they released firmware revisions 8820, 8850, and 02G9,
depending on the drive model.

http://downloadcenter.intel.com/Detail_Desc.aspx?agr=Y&ProdId=3043&DwnldID=17485&lang=eng

-- 
Mike Gerdts
http://mgerdts.blogspot.com/
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