From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sun, 14 Oct 2001 02:21:56 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sun, 14 Oct 2001 02:21:46 -0400 Received: from hssx-sktn-167-47.sasknet.sk.ca ([142.165.167.47]:17681 "HELO mail.thock.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id ; Sun, 14 Oct 2001 02:21:31 -0400 Message-ID: <3BC92F07.7030801@thock.com> Date: Sun, 14 Oct 2001 00:21:59 -0600 From: Dylan Griffiths User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.4+) Gecko/20010926 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jakob =?ISO-8859-1?Q?=D8stergaard?= Cc: Linux Kernel Subject: Re: [Fwd: HPT 370 / RAID 5 possible corruption issue.] In-Reply-To: <3BC381DE.4090300@thock.com> <20011012012453.C6330@unthought.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Jakob Østergaard wrote: > I can't say what the current status is. But some time ago some people I know > got burnt with silent corruption from using HPT cards with RAID5 and RAID0, the > cards were replaced with Promise cards, and the problem went away (as it should > - I've been running a lot of RAID on Promise cards and never saw the problem). I've got a spare Promise card now that I will test and keep posted of the results. > As long as there are Promise cards to get, I'm not going anywhere near HPT. > > Maybe there's a fix somewhere, maybe there's a magic BIOS setting or upgrade, > maybe something else can make it work, I don't know. Promise cards are cheap > so I don't care. > > Sorry for not being able to give you "good" information, but at least now you > got "some" information. Hope it helps, for what it's worth. > I wonder, if the HPT card support is so bad, or the hardware itself is so squirelly, why it's not marked as UNSTABLE or has a note about the HW being evil. -- www.kuro5hin.org -- technology and culture, from the trenches. -=-=-=-=-=- Those that give up liberty to obtain safety deserve neither. -- Benjamin Franklin http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2812463,00.html http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/09/16/1647231 -=-=-=-=-=-