On 21/05/11 04:58, Tobias McNulty wrote:
* SYBA SD-PEX40031 (Pericom PI7C9X111 + Silicone Image Sil3124
chipset) - lots of errors during heavy I/O such as resyc'ing
Oh dear.. Gee, another item of useless anecdotal evidence directly attributable to cheaply
manufactured cards from a third world country and no direct correlation to a flaky chipset design.
* 3ware 9650SE-8LPML-Sgl - I thought money would solve the problem,
but I didn't realize that you can't use an expensive RAID card to
access existing data on the disk
Ahh..
* Supermicro AOC-Saslp-MV8 - I thought it would be a perfect match
given my Supermicro motherboard, but also gave me lots of errors
during heavy I/O and this experience seems to be confirmed by other
users in this thread
Oh dear.. Yes, the mvsas driver has been noted to be somewhat problematic still.
I hope you're not a betting man. 3 for 3 is not a great record thus far. On the up-side the 7042's
have been as solid as a rock.. and _fast_ for the last couple of years. Marvell worked with Mark
Lord and the result was a workable version of the sata_mv driver. Shame they don't do the same with
the mvsas code.
Additionally, I migrated two arrays from the Marvell7042 controllers onto the LSI based "IBM"
controllers configured up as JBOD and they just worked. No initialisation or reconfiguration
required at all.
Brad
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