On Thu, Oct 20, 2005 at 04:30:48AM +0200, Alson van der Meulen wrote: > (Please CC me in replies as I'm not a subscriber of this list) > > Update: I tested with an i810-based mainboard (Celeron 1GHz, RTL8139 > ethernet, Promise SATAII 150 TX4 controller, 3 SATA disks in RAID 5, > FreeBSD 6.0-RC1). It remained stable for two hours. I suspect this is > because it has far less bandwith (iostat showed only about 3MB/s to the > disks, as opposed to 12MB/s with the i915 mainboard). After I added a dd > if=/dev/zero of=foo bs=128k (this increased the bandwidth usage to the > disk to about 9MB/s according to iostat), it crashed in about 40 > minutes. This suggests that it crashes because of the large amount of > I/O. However, it's only about 10MB/s per disk (for three disks), so it > doesn't seem to be that exotic to me. > > Since this is a completely different mainboard, it seems clearly a > software issue to me. The built-in ICH6 controller works fine however, > so it may be PDC*0518/SII311* specific (which basically means any PCI > SATA controller available locally).
The SII3112 is a piece of crap that won't work reliably. Order something better (Soren recommends Promise cards). -- Brooks _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
