Hi Gene,

thanks for your fast reply.

Am Mon, 6 Jun 2011 05:59:02 -0400
Gene Heskett <gene.heskett@gmail.com> schrieb:

> On Monday, June 06, 2011, Lars Täuber wrote:
[...]
> >
> >Is there something I do wrong? Could someone help me to debug this?
> >Thanks
> >Lars
> 
> Looking at your dmesg, I get the impression you have a bunch of disks that 
> are in need of a firmware update.  Unforch, the dmesg snippet does not 
> include the drive discovery and identification data.

Attached is the whole dmesg from a fresh boot up. (I hope I'm allowed to send this to the ML!?)
 
> However, I would back that data up to another medium before I did that as I 
> had the seagate firmware update scramble the blkid's and partition names of 
> one of two 1Tb drives I have.  Neither drive errors now, but the read/write 
> speeds for the 2nd identical drive are about 1/3rd the rate of the first.

There is no partition table nor any data on the disks, because I never could use the array.

> Firmware updates are in the form of a bootable cd .iso, and you can 
> download the cd image from the makers site.

I didn't find any firmware updates from WD. How do they manage to have all the drivers possibly needed to talk to the disks?

Thanks again
Lars


> Cheers, gene
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