Is your card plugged into a riser card? We had similar problems (random
corruption) with a 7506-8 card. The workaround was to set the speed for
that PCI slot to 33MHz (rather than Auto or 66MHz). I think this tech
note describes our problem:
http://www.3ware.com/kb/article.aspx?id=10848
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On Sun, 18 Apr 2004, Ollie Cook wrote:
> I am experiencing filesystem corruption while using a 1TB (appx.) partition
> under 4.9-STABLE (sources from Mar 17) and an 8-port 3ware ATA RAID card (twe
> device driver). The RAID set comprises 5x250GB ATA disks.
[...]
The type of corruption you're see
On Mon, 2004-04-19 at 18:05, Ollie Cook wrote:
> Are you aware of any utilities which would be able to diagnose what you
> describe? I guess what I'm asking is how did you determine that that was what
> happened last time you saw these symtoms?
ports/sysutils/diskcheckd might help here; at least
onday, April 19, 2004 10:06 AM
> To: Matthew Seaman; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: filesystem corruption with 1TB filesystem,
> 4.9-STABLE, twe
>
>
> On Mon, Apr 19, 2004 at 04:51:16PM +0100, Matthew Seaman wrote:
> > Can you rule out hardware problems by substituting in
On Mon, Apr 19, 2004 at 06:05:33PM +0100, Ollie Cook wrote:
> This is the first time we've tried the 3ware ATA RAID cards so I don't have
> another 'known good' one. Usually we use SCSI RAID cards. If I were to replace
> it I still wouldn't be able to guarantee that is was 'known good'. I may be
>
On Mon, Apr 19, 2004 at 04:51:16PM +0100, Matthew Seaman wrote:
> Can you rule out hardware problems by substituting in a different
> known good 3-ware card? Last time I saw anything like this was an IO
> controller chip going marginal through overheating under heavy load
> and flipping occasional
