[ldm-users] Pete Pokrandt on NPR?

• To: Pete Pokrandt <poker@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
• Subject: [ldm-users] Pete Pokrandt on NPR?
• From: "Paul J. Bayer" <pbayer@xxxxxxx>
• Date: Fri, 16 Apr 2010 13:32:37 -0400

Was that fellow LDM'er Pete Pokrandt from UW that I heard on NPR's "All
Things Considered" yesterday?  Look for "Pokran" in:

 http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=126025840


Paul


On Tue, 2010-02-23 at 10:34 -0600, Pete Pokrandt wrote:
> All,
> 
> There is also a firmware issue with some Western Digital SATA drives 
> dropping offline on some raid controllers as well. I had a raid go bad 
> last month, lost about 1 yr of archived recent data. Drives affected are 
> WD1600YS, WD2500YS, WD4000YS, and WD5000YS with certain firmware 
> revisions. Here's the Western Digital help page about the problem, with 
> a link to the firmware update and instructions.
> 
> http://wdc.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/wdc.cfg/php/enduser/std_adp.php?p_faqid=1493
> 
> All my WD5000YS drives in that array are now up to date, haven't had one 
> drop off since. (knocks on wood...)
> 
> Pete
> 
> 
> Laws, Peter C. wrote:
> > Wasn't that far down in the pile.  Problem started in 2008, fix available a 
> > year or so ago.
> >
> > --
> > Peter Laws / N5UWY
> > National Weather Center / Network Operations Center / Web
> > University of Oklahoma Information Technology
> > plaws@xxxxxx
> >
> > ________________________________________
> > From: Peter Laws [plaws@xxxxxx]
> > Sent: Monday, April 20, 2009 08:49
> > To: NITC Distribution List
> > Subject: Seagate firmware issue
> >
> > If you are aware of the Seagate firmware issue, keep reading.  If not,
> > delete now and sleep peacefully.  :-)
> >
> > Thanks to XXXXX of XXXX, I have a rig set up in the NOC area to flash
> > certain disks.  If you have 750 billion byte or 1 trillion byte SATA disks
> > that are in need of the SN06 firmware, please feel free to use the rig.
> > Come by with your SATA disk and I'll show you how it works.  Takes about 2
> > minutes and is mostly automated.
> >
> > Be forewarned: AFAIK, flashing the disk wipes the data and/or renders it
> > unusable.
> >
> > On the storage unit I'm updating, I'm pulling one disk from the RAID and
> > letting it rebuild using the hot spare.  Wnen I install the newly-flashed
> > disk, I set it as the new spare.  6 hours later or so, I do it again.
> > Seven down, 17 to go.
> >
> >
> > --
> > Peter Laws / N5UWY
> > National Weather Center / Network Operations Center
> > University of Oklahoma Information Technology
> > plaws@xxxxxx
> >
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> 
> 

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