[Beowulf] important WDC firmware update

[Robert G. Brown]

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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