On Tue, Nov 26, 2002 at 02:56:41PM +0100, SCHEP. - Schepke, Arnt wrote:
> Hi, i have a running software raid 1. This consist of two ide devices hda
> and hdc. The root filesystem is running on this raid array. The harddiscs
> are installed in removable frames.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
That is the issue.
<<snip>>
I've just had the same problem. My setup: 4 Maxtor 160G connected to a
Promise 133TX2 card, one of them was in an Icy Dock removable rack, the
three remaining were directly connected to the IDE cable.
The tray-connected disk would always give us the BadCRC error upon
resynching with the raid5 array. That kind of error is typical of bad
cabling.
using IDE ports on motherboards, and using 3Ware cards we rarely see this issue.
Using Promise we frequently see it.
Also, cables are important, I agree. Yellow Teflon/TPE cables make a big difference.
The cheap grey ones are not suitable for this type of use.
With our best regards,
Maurice W. Hilarius Telephone: 01-780-456-9771
Hard Data Ltd. FAX: 01-780-456-9772
11060 - 166 Avenue mailto:maurice@harddata.com
Edmonton, AB, Canada http://www.harddata.com/
T5X 1Y3
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