EddieA

I just added 5 new 2T Seagate drives attached to an IBM 1015 controller, flashed to a LSI 9211/IT mode, and ran pre-clears on all 5 drives. All 5 show the same near_thresh warnings: Spin_Retry_Count = 100 100 97 near_thresh 0 End-to-End_Error = 100 100 99 near_thresh 0 Is this something to worry about, or it just a mis-interpretation of the values returned by SMART. All 5 drives passed the SMART tests, and all 5 have 0 re-allocated sectors. Cheers. preclear_rpts.zip

Just flashed an IBM M1015 with the latest 9211 P13.5 IT firmware off LSI's site. Went smooth, with no glitches. Based on a comment on this blog I left off the MPTSAS2.ROM and only flashed in the firmware. Boots straight in, without having to wait for the Option ROM. I'm guessing in IT mode, I'm not really missing anything by not having the ROM. Was hoping for a speed increase over the onboard SATA controller, but I guess it's more the disks that are throttling me: Around 100MB/sec for Parity check Around 28MB/sec for copying files over the network from a WinBlows 7 desktop, which drops to around 10MB/sec when the file is coming off a PATA drive with a PATA->SATA adapter. Gotta get rid of that drive. Cheers, Eddie