From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: PFC Subject: Re: Cheap Motherboards and Linux RAID Date: Mon, 03 Apr 2006 21:24:39 +0200 Message-ID: References: <6f809746f8127f.6f8127f6f80974@shaw.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; delsp=yes; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <6f809746f8127f.6f8127f6f80974@shaw.ca> Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Solid Computing , linux-raid@vger.kernel.org Cc: jeff@garzik.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids > If you happen to be unfortunate enough to have also purchased a cheap > ASUS K8N VM with the Nforce410 chipset in order to get the software RAID And if you are also unfortunate enough to have bought some newer Maxtor SATA harddrives, use the jumper on the drive to revert to SATA150 instead of SATA300 ; this will prevent your drives from randomly failing (and losing all data) every 2-5 days. If your drive has no jumper, you (should) be safe (hopefully). This bug is agnostic and hits windows and linux, with nforce 3 and 4 chipsets. On the SATA150 position, the machine has been running smoothly for a few months with no problem whatsoever. > (or anything for that matter) to work you have to disable APIC . This > means APIC modules must not be loaded.