On Tue, 2006-06-06 at 18:24 -0400, Sam Varshavchik wrote: > Gilboa Davara writes: > > > I'm got a large number of HP wx9300 and Tyan Tiger/Thunder K8WE (all are > > dual (dual core) Opteron workstations/servers based on the nVidia NF4 > > chipset) running FC4/64 and FC5/64 (and CentOS) without a problem. > > All of them are SCSI based, so I can't really comment on problems with > > the SATA controller, (I though. > > Which SCSI controller are you using, and are any of the Opteron machine dual > CPU, and do you use softraid? > It seems to me that the combination of Opteron dual CPU, SCSI, and softraid, > is particularly lethal. > Among others I use: - LSI Logic (53c1030). - Adaptec 29160/64. - HP Smart Array 6i (64xx). I'm using software RAID5 (and RAID1) on LSI Logic and the Adapatec controller. At least two of the machines are used by me for kernel driver development, which usually put their up-time in minutes (between crashes ;))... no MD problem thus far. Gilboa
