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

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

[PFC]

> 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

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

[berk walker]

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-