On Thursday, 10.11.2005 at 00:33 -0800, Andrew Sharp wrote: > > Are you implying that the RAID card (or the megaraid driver) is > > faulty? Would you suggesting using a different controller in this > > case? > > Well, no, not necessarily faulty, but some default parameters might > not be agreeing so well with some other default parameters. Like > stride size and disk cache size, fs type, etc. Hopefully the raid > card's default stride size doesn't disagree with its own cache size. > And all this is ruling out that there isn't something specific that > needs to be done to this card/setup to pull the cork out. Have you > googled? I've googled lots and very little is coming up. Fortunately, although this is a live system, it's only essential to have it online during normal (extended) working hours, i.e. 0700-1800 - I can probably have a play around with it one evening, or at the weekend, at least in a non-destructive way. Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Ewart davee@ceu.ox.ac.uk Computing Manager, Cancer Epidemiology Unit Cancer Research UK / Oxford University PGP: CC70 1883 BD92 E665 B840 118B 6E94 2CFD 694D E370 Get key from http://www.ceu.ox.ac.uk/~davee/davee-ceu-ox-ac-uk.asc N 51.7518, W 1.2016
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