From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Farkas Levente Subject: Re: 3ware 7500-8 controller, hardware or software raid, kernel crash Date: Mon, 05 May 2003 13:22:48 +0200 Sender: ataraid-list-admin@redhat.com Message-ID: <3EB64988.8000809@bnap.hu> References: Reply-To: ataraid-list@redhat.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: Errors-To: ataraid-list-admin@redhat.com List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: To: Andreas Kahnt Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org, ataraid-list@redhat.com, Adam Radford List-Id: linux-raid.ids 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? -- Levente "Si vis pacem para bellum!"