I had the same issue with Maxtor SATA disks and 3ware 9550SX RAID card but finally our vendor contacted Maxtor and 3ware and installed a new firmware for the drives and since than they are working OK.
> After *finally* convincing our vendor it was Maxtor (we've had > problems w/ them before this as well) they shipped us a batch of > Seagates, and it's been operational now for quite some time. No > sleeping drives, so far set and forget. > > This, as a disclaimer, was just for our particular application. I > will say however, that I will never buy Maxtor again. _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf