At 4:47 PM +0100 2000/2/24, Brad Knowles wrote:
> Blargh. It does appear to hurt.
After having received positive feedback on these reports from
several people, I will continue posting updates.
Thanks, folks. I can really use the support right now.
> I'm trying the two 2940U2W
> controllers on the primary PCI bus with the on-board AIC-7890
> controller hard-wired to the secondary PCI bus.
Bugger. That doesn't work, either.
I guess I should have paid more attention to the clue
silk-screened on the motherboard near the first slot in the secondary
PCI bus that says "RAID Upgradeable PCI slot", and another clue
silk-screened elsewhere close by that said something like "Insert
NICs into primary PCI bus only".
Sigh.... I guess we get to buy a couple of 3950U2Ws, and maybe
hold on to these 2940U2Ws and see if they can ever be useful in
another project sometime.
It looks like the PCI bridge chip is a real issue with this
particular hardware configuration, and so far as I can tell, using
SMP doesn't seem to make a difference.
After confirming that everything is working okay again, we get to
go back to reconfiguring the RAID array, doing horizontal striping
across the logical units, seeing what happens when I add softupdates,
etc....
I'll post results here when I've got 'em.
Thanks everyone!
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