From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: berk walker Subject: Re: Kanotix crashed my raid... (nvidia crashed my raid...) Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2006 07:50:23 -0500 Message-ID: <43C3AD8F.5080200@panix.com> References: <200601100159.15576.mlaks@verizon.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: PFC Cc: Mitchell Laks , "linux-raid@vger.kernel.org" List-Id: linux-raid.ids 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 > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > 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-