Hello Alexander, Could you get the LSI MegaRAID SATA 300-8X controller working for a long duration? Have you run any performance benchmark on it yet? How much bandwidth do you get with the controller? Thanks, Kallol kallol@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://www.nucleodyne.com On Thu, 2005-06-09 at 08:26, Alexander Jolk wrote: > Alexander Jolk wrote: > > Jolk wrote: > > > >> I'm trying to get an LSI MegaRAID SATA 300-X8 controller to work on a > >> Debian/sarge system with kernel 2.6.11-9-em64t-p4-smp from unstable. > >> The megaraid_mbox module is loaded and seems to identify the > >> controller, but whenever I try to access the disk, I get SCSI errors, > >> the controller alarm goes off, and upon inspection in the BIOS, the > >> first SATA disc is marked `FAILED'. Reconfiguring the RAID lets me > >> restart the whole process. > > > > > > Following up to myself, I compiled my own kernel 2.6.11.11 and things > > appear to work so far. Known problem that has been fixed, or worth > > investigating? > > Any pointers, anybody? While things are working a little better, I > still get a complete RAID crash every once in a while (a few hours of > use, typically). Since I have got no reaction so far, is more > information needed, or should I take my questions somewhere else? Where? > > Alex > - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html