From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-5.3 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MAILING_LIST_MULTI,NICE_REPLY_A,SPF_HELO_NONE, SPF_PASS,USER_AGENT_SANE_1 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D5408C4363D for ; Tue, 6 Oct 2020 11:29:40 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9C0C52083B for ; Tue, 6 Oct 2020 11:29:40 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1726000AbgJFL3k (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 Oct 2020 07:29:40 -0400 Received: from smtp.hosts.co.uk ([85.233.160.19]:32402 "EHLO smtp.hosts.co.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1725946AbgJFL3k (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 Oct 2020 07:29:40 -0400 Received: from host86-157-96-171.range86-157.btcentralplus.com ([86.157.96.171] helo=[192.168.1.65]) by smtp.hosts.co.uk with esmtpa (Exim) (envelope-from ) id 1kPlA1-000BeG-67; Tue, 06 Oct 2020 12:29:38 +0100 Subject: Re: do i need to give up on this setup To: Roger Heflin , Daniel Sanabria Cc: Roman Mamedov , Linux-RAID References: <20201005184449.54225175@natsu> <20201005190421.4ecd8f1b@natsu> From: antlists Message-ID: <5be31543-22ec-dd9f-fd08-d759c4b0df3a@youngman.org.uk> Date: Tue, 6 Oct 2020 12:29:37 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:68.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/68.12.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Language: en-GB Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org On 06/10/2020 11:53, Roger Heflin wrote: > When the card has an > issue all of the ports seem to stop responding to commands. I am > guessing the firmware on the card somehow crashes or gets into some > sort of endless loop. I reported it to marvel, they blamed the OS'es > ACHI drivers,even though the AHCI drivers worked perfectly fine with > the built in AMD ports. So we've got the crap drives on the crap controllers ... would it make any difference if you put the Greens on the motherboard, and the Caviars on the Marvell? Caviars I believe are good quality drives that might take enough load off the Marvell to enable it to work sort-of okay ... Oh - and replace the Greens pretty soon - I don't know how they compare against other drives quality-wise, but they are optimised in a raid anti-pattern. Cheers, Wol