Re: 3ware 7500-8 controller, hardware or software raid, kernel crash

[Farkas Levente <lfarkas@bnap.hu>]

Andreas Kahnt wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> 
>>after we format it, start to copy back the data (about 250GB) from nfs.
>>after about 2 minutes the kernel crash with some kind of io error on the
>>3ware controller. unfortunately we don't have time to write down the
>>kernel's error message since this is one of our production enviroment
>>server. what's more I wouldn't like to buy more such card to play with if
>>it's not  well functional. you can read the kernel log after that crash at
>>the end of this mail.
> 
> 
> We had the same problem using SuSE-8.0/2.4.18. We 'solved' the problem using
> 6+1 - Raid-5 and removed the 8. disk. Now the last disk is a cold spare ;-).
> This work well for a couple of months uptime.

are you kidding? hmm:-((
this is the truth??? I'm getting said:-(
do the 3ware are aware of this?
we'd like to buy more such cards, but we've a few server in which 7+1 is 
required....
or it's better if I use software raid and in that case the above problem 
doesn't occure what's more I've got better performance?

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   Levente                               "Si vis pacem para bellum!"