From: David Brown <david@westcontrol.com>
To: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: potentially lost largeish raid5 array..
Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2011 15:28:36 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <j5i1od$jar$1@dough.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4E7C81E0.1040707@hardwarefreak.com>
On 23/09/2011 14:56, Stan Hoeppner wrote:
> On 9/23/2011 12:10 AM, Thomas Fjellstrom wrote:
>
>> I /really really/ wish the driver for this card was more stable, but
>> you deal
>> with what you've got (in my case a $100 2 port SAS/8 port SATA card).
>
> Please don't shield the identity of the problem card. Others need to
> know of your problems. An educated guess tells me it is one of...
>
> Card: SuperMicro AOC-SASLP-MV8 Marvell 88SE6480
> Driver: MVSAS
>
> Card: HighPoint RocketRAID 2680/2680SGL Marvell 88SE6485
> Driver: MVSAS
>
> This ASIC/driver combo is so historically horrible with Linux that I'm
> surprised all the owners haven't had a big bon fire party and thrown all
> the cards in. Or simply Ebay'd them to Windows users, where they seem to
> work relatively OK.
>
> Solve your problem with a 50% more $$ LSI SAS1068E based Intel 8 port
> PCIe x4 SAS/SATA HBA, which uses the mptsas driver:
> http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16816117157
>
> It seems this is the card most users switch to after being burned by the
> cheap Marvell based SAS 2xSFF8087 cards. The 1068E cards and the mptsas
> driver are far more reliable, stable, and faster. Many OEM cards from
> IBM, Dell, etc, use this chip and can be had on Ebay for less than the
> new retail Intel card. In your situation I'd probably buy new Intel just
> in case. Hope this info/insight helps.
>
The SAS card I had was an LSI SAS1068 card, with 2 SAS (no SATA), Dell
brand. It worked flawlessly with Linux right up to the day the card
died out of the blue.
With a sample size of 1, I don't have the statistics to justify judging
the card or the controller, but I certainly will be sceptical about
using such a card again.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-09-23 13:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 46+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-09-23 1:50 potentially lost largeish raid5 array Thomas Fjellstrom
2011-09-23 4:32 ` NeilBrown
2011-09-23 4:49 ` Thomas Fjellstrom
2011-09-23 4:58 ` Roman Mamedov
2011-09-23 5:10 ` Thomas Fjellstrom
2011-09-23 7:06 ` David Brown
2011-09-23 7:37 ` Thomas Fjellstrom
2011-09-23 12:56 ` Stan Hoeppner
2011-09-23 13:28 ` David Brown [this message]
2011-09-23 16:22 ` Thomas Fjellstrom
2011-09-23 23:24 ` Stan Hoeppner
2011-09-24 0:11 ` Thomas Fjellstrom
2011-09-24 12:17 ` Stan Hoeppner
2011-09-24 13:11 ` (unknown) Tomáš Dulík
2011-09-24 15:16 ` potentially lost largeish raid5 array David Brown
2011-09-24 16:38 ` Stan Hoeppner
2011-09-25 13:03 ` David Brown
2011-09-25 14:39 ` Stan Hoeppner
2011-09-25 15:18 ` David Brown
2011-09-25 23:58 ` Stan Hoeppner
2011-09-26 10:51 ` David Brown
2011-09-26 19:52 ` Stan Hoeppner
2011-09-26 20:29 ` David Brown
2011-09-26 23:28 ` Krzysztof Adamski
2011-09-27 3:53 ` Stan Hoeppner
2011-09-24 17:48 ` Thomas Fjellstrom
2011-09-24 5:59 ` Mikael Abrahamsson
2011-09-24 17:53 ` Thomas Fjellstrom
2011-09-25 18:07 ` Robert L Mathews
2011-09-26 6:08 ` Mikael Abrahamsson
2011-09-26 2:26 ` Krzysztof Adamski
2011-09-23 5:11 ` NeilBrown
2011-09-23 5:22 ` Thomas Fjellstrom
2011-09-23 8:09 ` Thomas Fjellstrom
2011-09-23 9:15 ` NeilBrown
2011-09-23 16:26 ` Thomas Fjellstrom
2011-09-25 9:37 ` NeilBrown
2011-09-24 21:57 ` Aapo Laine
2011-09-25 9:18 ` Kristleifur Daðason
2011-09-25 10:10 ` NeilBrown
2011-10-01 23:21 ` Aapo Laine
2011-10-02 17:00 ` Aapo Laine
2011-10-05 2:13 ` NeilBrown
2011-10-05 2:06 ` NeilBrown
2011-11-05 12:17 ` Alexander Lyakas
2011-11-06 21:58 ` NeilBrown
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