[Beowulf] important WDC firmware update

Bruce Allen ballen at gravity.phys.uwm.edu
Tue Feb 6 12:17:03 PST 2007


Here is an important firmware update for WDC WDXXXXYS series drives on 
RAID controllers.  Without this update you will see period drive dropouts 
and rebuilds on the RAID sets.  We've been seeing this a lot with some 
Areca controllers; I am hoping that this firmware update will fix the 
problem.

http://wdc.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/wdc.cfg/php/enduser/std_adp.php?p_faqid=1493&p_created=1168299631&p_sid=La1EsAti&p_accessibility=0&p_redirect=&p_lva=&p_sp=cF9zcmNoPTEmcF9zb3J0X2J5PSZwX2dyaWRzb3J0PSZwX3Jvd19jbnQ9MjImcF9wcm9kcz0mcF9jYXRzPSZwX3B2PSZwX2N2PSZwX3NlYXJjaF90eXBlPXNlYXJjaF9mbmwmcF9wYWdlPTEmcF9zZWFyY2hfdGV4dD1maXJtd2FyZQ**&p_li=&p_topview=1

Cheers,
 	Bruce



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