On Mon, 2 Aug 2004, Tim Small wrote: > The Promise cards, are cheap, but only do 66Mhz/32 bit PCI and provide > four SATA ports, so they may not be well suited to some boards.. Both > chipsets were used with libata on 2.6 kernels, with a mixture of s/w > raid5, and s/w raid1. The only slight irritation is the current lack of > smartd support (pending libata driver support). With what distros / exactly which kernels? I've been testing a system with 2 Promise SATA150 TX4's and 6 Maxtor 200gb SATA drives in a supermicro (mb/chassis) system with 7 drive hot-swap drive carrier. I've been having serious problems and am having trouble telling if its hardware or software. I've been trying both Whitebox (basically RH ES 3.0 which uses a 2.4 kernel and includes libata but doesn't build it by default) and Fedora Core 2, which supports the SATA hardware by default. OS gets installed on smaller drives on the MB's PATA controller. The big 6 drives are supposed to be SW RAID5. The system usually locks up while building the array. Today it got as far as nearly finishing the mke2fs on the array when it locked up. Running badblocks on each 200gb drive individually, I got errors on one of them once. When I reran badblocks on that drive, I did not get errors. I still can't get an array built/formatted (under whitebox today) without the system locking up. So, I'm curious who else is using the SATA150 TX4 and with which kernel/driver and whether they're having or have seen any similar problems. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Jon Lewis | I route Senior Network Engineer | therefore you are Atlantic Net | _________ http://www.lewis.org/~jlewis/pgp for PGP public key_________ - 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
