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From: "Gabor FUNK" <funk.gabor@hunetkft.hu>
Subject: Re: sata_sil24 stability and performance
Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2008 14:06:18 +0100
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To: Gabor FUNK <FUNK.Gabor@hunetkft.hu>, Denys Dmytriyenko <denis@denix.org>, Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
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> 2)  I replaced the MB to a different one, now it is a Gigabyte as
> well, but it has no nvidia/jmicron contollers but ata_piix and achi
> onboard, and - ironically - an addon sil24 card...
> So far, the system running well [knock-knock], under heavy
> stress test, for 3 weeks now, without problems.
> I believe Tejun suggested to try to remove one of the HDD-s
> online to see what happens, I will try this today later on, when
> I am at the server and let you know.

I removed power from one of the drives in question, and besides
losing that disk, nothing extra happened - eg. the rest 7 drives
stayed operational, raid was operational, etc.

G.