Peter Arremann wrote: > On Wednesday 29 June 2005 21:58, Mark Miksis wrote: > >> Very interesting reading - thanks for the link. Some of those >> posts suggest that the newer 3Ware firmware may "improve" the >> issue. Otherwise, I guess I'm in the market for a different 4 >> channel RAID 5 SATA card. Any recommendations? > > > 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). > > > 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. > > 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... > > Peter. > Well, I upgraded to the latest driver today and the problem persists. (By the way, upgrading via the driver source does also upgrade the firmware and BIOS.) I spoke to 3Ware support. They seemed familiar with the problem but blamed it on Red Hat's Kernels. They then referred me to some performance tuning appnotes which I tried with no success. I guess I'm off to buy a new card this afternoon - probably LSI or Adaptec.
