From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Soeren Sonnenburg Subject: Re: Promise raid controller writes to disk, anybody know where? Date: 17 Apr 2003 08:01:09 +0200 Message-ID: <1050559268.13617.22.camel@fortknox> References: <3E9D83B7.4050904@namesys.com> <1050528366.13617.16.camel@fortknox> <78211964.20030416233820@tnonline.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: list-help: list-unsubscribe: list-post: Errors-To: flx@namesys.com In-Reply-To: <78211964.20030416233820@tnonline.net> List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: Anders Widman Cc: Reiserfs-List@namesys.com On Wed, 2003-04-16 at 23:38, Anders Widman wrote: > > Yes, I just threw 2 promise controllers away because the drivers are > > damn instable (at least for kernels 2.4.19- 21pre7). > > > If you don't want to risk unnecessary crashes buy a controller that is > > *really* supported like the highpointech/cmd/3ware/via ones. > > Just a note on this. I have found that Promise controllers (at least > the Ultra 100 Tx2 ones) have a nasty incapability problem with > Maxtor drives. This cause me to have all sorts of random problems. > Once I moved the Maxtor drives to the VIA controller everything > runs fine so far. Well I never had random problems with these controllers (ultra tx2). They just did crash when I was causing to much io. (raid5 on linux software raid here, rebuilding the raid and running bonnie at the same time was enough. all I could do is go down and disable DMA or go to UDMA0 not sure whether that was enough). > Now I am only running Seagate and IBM on the Promise controllers and > it is fine. The new Maxtor (which uses Quantum labeled chips) seem > to work good too. they crash at least with maxtor and wdc drives. no no it is the controller this time. Soeren.