On Monday 23 January 2006 09:46 pm, Shawn wrote: > Confirmed. Using the promise OEM driver, (ulsata2.ko) module the FC4 > discovery order comes in exactly as printed on the board's themselves, > ports 1-4. Dear Shawn, Thank you so much for so much excellent legwork. I had looked and seen a "disconnect" between the printed documentation ports 1 2 3 4, and the actual 3-2-4-1 that you noticed, and decided it was "random". Really it was not random it was just "bizarre" :). But I am glad to see it is consistently bizarre, across drives (and I hope across PCI slots :) ). I will check with my two card system to see what happens when I boot them all, or partial sets up. I am curious - I take it from you that it goes 3241 then 3241 on the next machine. I see from anothe post that I can check what is happening with the drive serial numbers and hdparm. I also will have to take the time to compile my own kernel to check out 2.6.15 which will give me the smartctl. Thanks to all who let me know about that! I just discovered that I need a second power supply because a 450W antec smartpower 2.0 is not enough power for 9 active drives and fans on my system :(. I must look for a better power supply. What do you recommend for big multidrive systems? Thank you very much. Mitchell Laks - 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
