On 19:14, Maarten wrote: > >Are you also using an Intel-based SATA chip (please send the output > >of lspci -v)? Also, which kernel version are you using? > > No, my chipset is a VIA one. Because the VIA SATA chips/drivers are > terrible, I use only SATA PCI cards with Sil chipsets. Believe it or > not I have good/excellent experiences with these. The driver is quite > stable, better than everything else I tried. > > apoc log # lspci > 00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8377 [KT400/KT600 AGP] > Host Bridge (rev 80) > 00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8237 PCI Bridge > 00:07.0 RAID bus controller: Silicon Image, Inc. SiI 3114 > [SATALink/SATARaid] Serial ATA Controller (rev 02) > 00:08.0 RAID bus controller: Silicon Image, Inc. SiI 3114 > [SATALink/SATARaid] Serial ATA Controller (rev 02) > 00:09.0 RAID bus controller: Silicon Image, Inc. SiI 3114 > [SATALink/SATARaid] Serial ATA Controller (rev 02) > 00:0a.0 RAID bus controller: Silicon Image, Inc. SiI 3124 PCI-X Serial > ATA Controller (rev 02) > 00:0b.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8169 > Gigabit Ethernet (rev 10) > 00:0f.0 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. > VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT823x/A/C PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 06) > 00:11.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8237 ISA bridge > [KT600/K8T800/K8T890 South] > 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Rage XL AGP 2X > (rev 65) > > Linux apoc 2.6.23-gentoo-r3 #2 Fri Apr 25 11:09:37 CEST 2008 i686 AMD > Sempron(tm) 2200+ AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux My machine is running vanilla 2.6.25.4, i.e. we're using different SATA drivers and different kernels. While looking at the logs I found a plenty of those: set_rtc_mmss: can't update from 150 to 43 And indeed this machine started to have serious problems with its clock since last weekend. I found it off by 12 hours yesterday and it is still runing much too fast so that ntp is not working any more. I'm currently setting the time with a script in 10min intervals... Were you also seeing such messages during/after the hard disk failures? > I'm considering a 8/12/16 port Areca controller but a few practicalities > hold me back: the price, and the fact I would need a PCI-X slot unless I > want to kill performance by a factor of 10. Also, the fact that I then > cannot use software raid anymore tends to scare me a little: You never > know how firmware reacts in the more 'interesting' circumstances, and > you lose control over it... You could use jbod mode (or create single-disk "raid arrays") with Areca or 3ware controllers and use software raid on top of that. Andre -- The only person who always got his work done by Friday was Robinson Crusoe
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