If y'all remember the problem I posted a while back, with a 3TB drive for userspace loosing it on a server, and spitting DRDY errors, but which work on everything else. Well, enough research, and conversation, and I may have found the problem: it's a Caviar Green, meant for a desktop, and the controller in the server has issues, because it uses TLER:
http://hardforum.com/archive/index.php/t-1285254.html http://forums.dlink.com/index.php?topic=14603.0
In short, if it hits an error, it can take, in extreme cases, up to two min to recover; meanwhile, a RAID or HBA controller has hissy fits if it takes more than 7 or 15 seconds.
I'm ready to test this out; the trouble is, either I d/l a DOS utility, or I find what, two years ago, was bleeding edge smartmontools; the one with 6.2, 5.39.1-5, does not allows smartctl -l scterc,70,70 /dev/sdb
So, does anyone know a) what version might include that, and b) where I can find it? I have no problem building from a tarball, if I need to.
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