[OpenIndiana-discuss] BAD WD drives - defective by design?

[Rich]

The drives are attached to a backplane?

Try using 4k sector sizes and see if that improves it - I've seen and
been part of a number of discussions which involved this - and you, I
think, actually.

- Rich

On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 5:07 PM, Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk <roy at karlsbakk.net> wrote:
> Hi all
>
> It seems recent WD drives that aren't "Raid edition" can cause rather a lot of problems on RAID systems. We have a few machines with LSI controllers (6801/6081/9201) and we're seeing massive errors occuring. The usual pattern is a drive failing or even a resilver/scrub starting and then, suddenly, most drives on the whole backplane report errors. These are usually No Device (as reported by iostat -En), but the result is that we may see data corruption at the end. We also have a system setup with Hitachi Deskstars, which has been running for almost a year without issues. One system with a mixture of WD Blacks and greens showed the same errors as described, but has been working well after the WD drives were replaced by deskstars.
>
> Now, it seems WD has changed their firmware to inhibit people from using them for other things than toys (read: PCs etc). Since we've seen this issue on different controllers and different drives, and can't reproduce it with Hitachi Deskstars, I would guess the firmware "upgrade" from WD is the issue.
>
> Would it be possible to fix this in ZFS somehow? The drives seem to work well except for those "No Device" errors....
>
> Vennlige hilsener / Best regards
>
> roy
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