Mitchell Laks wrote:
Hi,
Thank you all for all of your work on this topic.
1) I apologize for my email bouncing. I have no real choice in dsl service.
Perhaps I will consider cable to prevent my mail bouncing! :)
2) I am able to hang 10 drives on 3 of the Promise SATA150 TX4 cards. So far
the construction of 5 raid1's and mkfs.ext3 is ok without kernel error.
All 10 drives are recognized by the promise BIOS (it shows drives 0-9) during
system turnon. I use two separate 450 W antec power supplies.
If I put on 12 drives, 4 on each one, the promise bios does not let me go
further. It hangs. Says something about not able to recognize hardware
configuration or something.
This may be a hardware limitation, or even a faulty channel or two or perhaps
one/two of the additional drives is not working. I dont know. I did notice
this "not booting behavior for TX4" with no adequate hints as to what is
going on earlier when i tried to hang a for a non funcioning sata drive on
the card that failed right after purchase". I tried 11 drives also and no
go. only 8 or less.
Thank you all and I will let you know what i discover..
mitchell laks
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In the past, I've had boxes that couldn't handle all of the extra PCI
requirements of the Promise boards. My newer stuff seemed OK.
Email problem comment sent off-channel, pvt.
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