Peter Arremann wrote: > Actually, I have some 9500s that are finally getting stable. Each new > driver revision and each new firmware is better than the last and by > now, I have no issues (also running the x86_64 but on amd hardware). > Thanks for the encouraging feedback. It appears that the driver in FC4 is a bit old (and doesn't seem to correspond to a 3Ware release). Are you running SMP? > > Anyone who asks me, usually gets a 8500 controller as recommendation > because unlike the 9500s, those are actually rock solid. You should > try the firmware updates and maybe the driver (if there is one newer > than the one in the kernel you're running) and see if you can't get > your box stable that way - as I said before, it worked for me. I plan to compile the latest driver tomorrow... > > Also, you might want to get an AMD system next time if you have heavy > IO and more than 4GB ram - the AMD iommu requires no bounce > buffers... > Interesting. Actually, my IO needs are not *that* heavy, but I first encountered the problem when trying to restore a bunch of backups from my previous machine.
