[mythtv-users] Seagate confirms problems with 1.5TB Barracuda drives

[Yan Seiner]

On Wed, November 12, 2008 9:09 am, Michael T. Dean wrote:
> On 11/12/2008 10:13 AM, Kevin Kuphal wrote:
>> I figured some mythtv users may have these drives in their systems.
>>
>> http://techreport.com/discussions.x/15863
>
> I actually have one of the affected models ( 9JU138-300 ) with the
> affected firmware ( SD17 ), but TTBOMK I haven't experienced the issue.
> Or, at least, I've noticed no signs of experiencing that issue.
>
> I am running on a PCI SATA card at 1.5Gbps (150MB/s).  Perhaps that helps?
>
> The funny part is that I have another unaffected Seagate 1.5TB (
> 9JU138-568 with firmware SD35 ) that was causing me unrelated problems.
> It would fail to initialize on cold boot before the SATA card probed it
> (100% repeatable), so the SATA card prevented the system from booting.
>

Anyone know if this extends to the 1TB drives?  I'm seeing very, very slow
response times if I hit my RAID5 system hard.  As in, the computer will
freeze, sometimes for as long as 15 to 20 seconds, with nothing in the
logs, and with top showing (when it updates) idle in the 40% to 60%
percent.

It only happens when I hit the RAID5 composed of 3 Seagate 1TB drives, not
with the RAID6 with 6 Seagate 400GB drives.

Also, how do I check the firmware version on these drives?

--Yan

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