PFC wrote:
So far ok for a few days. The promise cards are 54-62 dollars with 4
controllers. they work with kernel 2.6.12 and 2.6.14 debian stock
kernels.
via controllers on motherboard are good too - so far. i will let you
know more
over time.
Well. The linux box is holding.
The windows box won't even boot now. When it worked, it had
actually reverted the SATA in PIO mode (event log says "too many
errors, reverting back to PIO". Ouch. I put back DMA and now, this PC
is a doorstop. Need I say the HDD is new and perfectly functional ?
Which means I can't even backup my linux data using the windows
box, because my backup hdd is SATA !!!!
So I'm going to either change the mobo (but I'll never be able to
get a RMA on this), or buy the promise sata card you speak about. So
I'll have a Mobo with 4 unused sata ports. Cool.
google, read this : nvidia nforce sata software raid does not work
with maxtor HDDs !!!
http://forums.nvidia.com/lofiversion/index.php?t900.html
http://forums.nvidia.com/index.php?showtopic=2497
http://forums.nvidia.com/index.php?showtopic=2972
another guy who has the exact same error messages as I (on Mandriva)
(in french) :
http://www.thisishull.net/archive/index.php/t-140129.html
a patch that I did not try :
http://www.thisishull.net/archive/index.php/t-140129.html
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I have had many Maxtor failures, the PATAs seemed to die about 50 - 50
from bad control boards, the SATAs mostly failed when the min. resync
speed was jacked up. The later had only temporary failures [after the
data was replaced, of course].
I would be nice to get a handle on these problems, as Maxtor seems to
have the highest availability of "commodity" drives.
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