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Re: Raid 5 - not clean and then a failure.

From: Robin Hill <hidden>
Date: 2009-08-25 09:34:37

On Tue Aug 25, 2009 at 01:40:31AM -0700, Jon Hardcastle wrote:
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--- On Tue, 25/8/09, Robin Hill <robin@robinhill.me.uk> wrote:
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From: Robin Hill <redacted>
Subject: Re: Raid 5 - not clean and then a failure.
To: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Date: Tuesday, 25 August, 2009, 9:16 AM
On Tue Aug 25, 2009 at 12:54:49AM
-0700, Jon Hardcastle wrote:
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Guys,

I have been having some problems with my arrays that I think i have
nailed down to a pci controller (well I say that - it is always the
drives connected to *a* controller but I have tried 2!) anyway the
latest saga is i was trying some new kernel options last night - which
didn't work.
Did they have the same chipset?  I had problems with PCI controllers on
one of my systems, which turned out to be some sort of conflict between
the onboard chipset and the chipset on the controllers.  I found a PCI
card with a different chipset and have had no issues since.
They are/were cheapy little via ones from 'aria' I got a new one and
installed it along side a week ago 1 drive on it to 'test', when my
array came to do a scrub a week later I got a whole host of issues. I
am not sure what the cause was but now either of the controllers seem
work reliably. I have a pci express controller but my kernel doesnt
(yet!) support pci express. Do you know of you can get sata 3 on pci?
or is it too slow?
By SATA 3, I assume you're actually referring to SATA 3GBit/s (as SATA 3
has only just been ratified, and I doubt you can get it at all yet)?
You'll probably be able to find PCI cards that support it, but the
standard PCI bus (32-bit, 33MHz) only has a bandwidth of 1 GBit/s, so
can't even keep up with 1.5GBit/s SATA, let alone 3GBit/s.  A 64-bit or
66MHz bus would do better though.

Cheers,
    Robin
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