Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261238AbTH2OXM (ORCPT ); Fri, 29 Aug 2003 10:23:12 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261271AbTH2OXM (ORCPT ); Fri, 29 Aug 2003 10:23:12 -0400 Received: from ip-64-7-1-79.dsl.lax.megapath.net ([64.7.1.79]:42232 "EHLO ip-64-7-1-79.dsl.lax.megapath.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261238AbTH2OXK (ORCPT ); Fri, 29 Aug 2003 10:23:10 -0400 Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2003 07:22:55 -0700 (PDT) From: X-X-Sender: To: Nick Urbanik cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: Single P4, many IDE PCI cards == trouble?? In-Reply-To: <3F4F5C9A.5BAA1542@vtc.edu.hk> Message-ID: X-keyboard: Happy Hacking Keyboard Lite MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1574 Lines: 31 > Is there _anyone_ who is using a number of ATA133 IDE disks (>=6), each on > its own IDE channel, on a number of PCI IDE cards, and doing so > successfully and reliably? I begin to suspect not! If so, please tell us > what motherboard, IDE cards you are using. I used to imagine that a > terabyte of RAID storage on one P4 machine with ordinary cheap IDE cards > with software RAID would be feasible. I believe it is not (although I > cannot afford to play musical motherboards). We've tried it with five or six different motherboards, with Intel, Via, and Serverworks onboard chipsets, and Promise, Highpoint, and Silicon Image add-in cards, and had no luck. After extensive testing and patching, we finally gave up and bought 3ware 8500 cards. The only non-3ware IDE we've found to be stable is the Intel onboard chipset. > > > My machine locks solid at unpredictable intervals with no response > > > from keyboard lights, no Alt-Sysrq-x response, etc, with a wide > > > variety of 2.4.x kernels, including 2.4.22. We generally got lost DMA messages, but still, we were unable to obtain any stability. > I am giving up now, and have shelled out big dollars for a 3ware 7506-8, > which I will install early next week once I've figured out how to back up > and restore 203GB without shelling out even more money. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/