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/ _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
