Gregory Youngblood wrote:
I'm seeing several problems with a Silicon Image 3124 and Norco
DS-1220 external sata shelf with two Silicon Image 3726 port
multipliers and 8 500gb 7200.10 Seagate sata hard drives. The
hardware is known to be good. Or at least the Dell server is. The
only new hardware added to this server is the Norco DS-1220, Norco
4618 (Sil3124) controller, and the 8 drives. These problems are
causing file operations with remote servers (via Samba) to fail
intermittently.
Any advice or help to get this working reliably is appreciated.
i don't have advice that you'll like ;) if you want to get this
working ASAP, give in and taint your vendor-supplied kernel with the
vendor-supplied driver:
<http://www.siliconimage.com/docs/si3124r5_RHEL43_64bit_v1090_driver_and_GUI.tar.gz>http://www.siliconimage.com/docs/si3124r5_RHEL43_64bit_v1090_driver_and_GUI.tar.gz
works fine until you hit errors (find a working drive firmware and
stick with it) and won't consume ridiculous amounts of memory until
you put more than two controllers in a system. oh yeah... no hotplug
or PM either :(
otherwise, find someone who wants to beat tejun's existing
PMP-enabled driver into submission. i'll buy you a beer if you
succeed in that :D like you, i've had little luck with it in it's
current state.
good luck,
marc
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