Re: 3ware Raid controllers and 64bit Etch

[Andrew Miehs <andrew@2sheds.de>]

The machines are using a 3ware 64 bit PCI Raid controller - with 2 (or  
4 can't remember exactly).
They are in a 32bit PCI slot and the disks are SATA and mirrored (2  
disks)
Unfortunately I don't know exactly which controller as I do not have  
physical access to the machines.
(The machines are supplied by a hosting provider) - Is there anyway to  
find out exactly which cards they
are from the OS?

Cheers

Andrew

On 11/01/2008, at 6:13 PM, Seth Mattinen wrote:

> Andrew Miehs wrote:
> > On 11/01/2008, at 2:43 PM, Andrew Miehs wrote:
> > > Dear List,
> > >
> > > I have been having data corruption problems for the last two  
> > > months on 7 servers.
> > >
> > >
> > > After extensive testing, I have finally narrowed the problem down  
> > > to Debian Etch 2.6.18-5 kernel
> > > with the 3ware PCI controller. The same machine using the onboard  
> > > SATA controller does not
> > > corrupt data.
> > Just to make this clear - this is with 64bit version of Etch - I  
> > have not tested the 32bit version
> > with the Raid controller.
>
> I've been using an 9650SE-8LPML in RAID 6 (with battery) under 64bit  
> Etch without any problems. It's as heavily loaded as bonded dual 100  
> can let it be. Although you didn't say what controller and RAID  
> level you're using.

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