[mythtv-users] > 1TB Hard Drive Recommendations

[freedenizen]

On Sat, Oct 3, 2009 at 3:38 PM, David Brodbeck <gull at gull.us> wrote:
> On older 3ware controllers that can only do SATA-1 speeds (1.5 Gb/s) you
> need to jumper SATA-2 drives to force them to use the lower speed.  The
> auto-negotiation doesn't always work right, and I've seen non-jumpered
> SATA-2 drives kicked out of the array under heavy load.  I know this applies
> to the 95xx controllers, possibly some others.  On Western Digital drives
> you do this by shorting the OPT1 jumper.  I don't know about other brands;
> some may not even have a jumper for this, and I wouldn't recommend using
> those with older 3ware boards.

The setting I'm thinking of wasn't SATA speed, I think I found it:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time-Limited_Error_Recovery

there is a utility out there to enable it on the non RE series WD drives.