Hi,
after we format it, start to copy back the data (about 250GB) from nfs. after about 2 minutes the kernel crash with some kind of io error on the 3ware controller. unfortunately we don't have time to write down the kernel's error message since this is one of our production enviroment server. what's more I wouldn't like to buy more such card to play with if it's not well functional. you can read the kernel log after that crash at the end of this mail.
We had the same problem using SuSE-8.0/2.4.18. We 'solved' the problem using 6+1 - Raid-5 and removed the 8. disk. Now the last disk is a cold spare ;-). This work well for a couple of months uptime.
are you kidding? hmm:-((
this is the truth??? I'm getting said:-(
do the 3ware are aware of this?
we'd like to buy more such cards, but we've a few server in which 7+1 is required....
or it's better if I use software raid and in that case the above problem doesn't occure what's more I've got better performance?
-- Levente "Si vis pacem para bellum!"
