[rescue] Thumpers?

[Doug McIntyre]

The ones I had were all stock Seagate drives, with a Sun logo on the sticker,
but stock Seagate firmware as far as I could tell.


On Mon, Jun 18, 2018 at 11:59:20AM -0400, Nick B wrote:
> By 'special firmware' maybe they mean the TLER (
> https://support.wdc.com/knowledgebase/answer.aspx?ID=1478 ) feature?
> Nick
> 
> On Mon, Jun 18, 2018 at 11:56 AM, Doug McIntyre <merlyn at geeks.org> wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, Jun 18, 2018 at 03:38:44PM +0100, Jonathan Katz wrote:
> > > I've always wanted one of these and to load it with SSDs. That's still a
> > > few lotto tickets off. It would be a fun FreeNAS box and an awesome home
> > > high-end SAN with a 10Gb ethernet card for iSCSI :D
> > >
> > > I remember someone saying that the drives that go into these needed
> > special
> > > firmware. Is that true?
> >
> > I don't think so, I'm pretty sure I repaired the one I had with normal
> > disks with zero issues.
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