I am biased. I have bashed these cards as hard as I can; they have remained bulletproof for me. Their only problem is a maximum throughput of 10MB/sec to the host, and they support more operating systems than almost anything else on the planet (IDE interface notwithstanding). What F/W version do you have on the cards? Sincerely -- Mark Salyzyn -----Original Message----- From: linux-raid-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:linux-raid-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Michael Sent: Thursday, July 29, 2004 7:03 PM To: Mark Watts Cc: linux-raid@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: DPT SmartRAID IV question... > I've managed to acquire a DPT SmartRAID IV 3334W card with the SX4030/1UW > daughterboard and 32MB of cache ram... > I have two different models of the DPT SmartRAID board -- both are buggy and cause data loss (software raid corruption) on high disk loads such as copying large files. I'm still using them for $$ reasons, and on relatively low loads they seem to be OK. There are some notes floating around the net that some of these boards have bugs in the microcode. I've confirmed that for one type of board I have. Sorry, don't know the model numbers offhand, they are buttoned up in the machines. I have a spare daughterboard that is a 4050. If I had the option, I would make boat anchors of the cards and the scsii disks that go with them. They've been nothing but trouble. We have a dozen Linux raid 1 and 5 hosts and these are the only ones that ever fault. We run very low duty cycle on the disk IO so it's not a problem for us at the moment. Michael - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
