Re: Kanotix crashed my raid... (nvidia crashed my raid...)

[berk walker <berk@panix.com>]

PFC wrote:

>
>
>> So far ok for a few days. The promise cards are 54-62 dollars with 4
>> controllers. they work with kernel 2.6.12 and 2.6.14 debian stock  
>> kernels.
>> via controllers on motherboard are good too - so far. i will let you  
>> know more
>> over time.
>
>
>     Well. The linux box is holding.
>     The windows box won't even boot now. When it worked, it had 
> actually  reverted the SATA in PIO mode (event log says "too many 
> errors, reverting  back to PIO". Ouch. I put back DMA and now, this PC 
> is a doorstop. Need I  say the HDD is new and perfectly functional ?
>
>     Which means I can't even backup my linux data using the windows 
> box,  because my backup hdd is SATA !!!!
>
>     So I'm going to either change the mobo (but I'll never be able to 
> get a  RMA on this), or buy the promise sata card you speak about. So 
> I'll have a  Mobo with 4 unused sata ports. Cool.
>
>     google, read this : nvidia nforce sata software raid does not work 
> with  maxtor HDDs !!!
>
> http://forums.nvidia.com/lofiversion/index.php?t900.html
> http://forums.nvidia.com/index.php?showtopic=2497
> http://forums.nvidia.com/index.php?showtopic=2972
>
> another guy who has the exact same error messages as I (on Mandriva) 
> (in  french) :
>
> http://www.thisishull.net/archive/index.php/t-140129.html
>
> a patch that I did not try :
>
> http://www.thisishull.net/archive/index.php/t-140129.html
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I have had many Maxtor failures, the PATAs seemed to die about 50 - 50 
from bad control boards, the SATAs mostly failed when the min. resync 
speed was jacked up.  The later had only temporary failures [after the 
data was replaced, of course].

I would be nice to get a handle on these problems, as Maxtor seems to 
have the highest availability of "commodity" drives.
b-