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Date:      Sat, 26 Feb 2005 10:56:50 +0100
From:      Francois Tigeot <ftigeot@wolfpond.org>
To:        Doug White <dwhite@gumbysoft.com>
Cc:        Oliver Brandmueller <ob@e-Gitt.NET>
Subject:   Re: SATA RAID Support
Message-ID:  <20050226095649.GC6633@aoi.wolfpond.org>
In-Reply-To: <20050225171508.U30975@carver.gumbysoft.com>
References:  <20050223204202.31797.qmail@web11604.mail.yahoo.com> <013301c51a8b$ed2ad230$0300000a@Uzi> <6.2.1.2.0.20050224153015.02be6df0@64.7.153.2> <20050225083339.GA5014@aoi.wolfpond.org> <20050225110543.GA70464@e-Gitt.NET> <20050225171508.U30975@carver.gumbysoft.com>

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On Fri, Feb 25, 2005 at 05:21:17PM -0800, Doug White wrote:
> On Fri, 25 Feb 2005, Oliver Brandmueller wrote:
> 
> > Under heavy load (I/O load on the disks constantly over 200 tps, average
> > at about 250 tps, peaks over 600 tps) a random drive disconnects from
> > the RAID 10. After removing the drive from the config and rescanning the
> > bus, the drive does not show up anymore. The only way to get the drive
> > back is to unplug the drive (or switch the computer off, so that power
> > is removed).  After that there is no problem to rebuild the RAID with
> > the drive.
> 
> We were having problems with this even under light load, with Western
> Digital SATA disks (not Raptors I don't think). In some cases all of the
> disks would drop off the array. It was determined to be an incompatibility
> between the controller (8506, I believe) and the motherboard (Tyan S2721).

This is an other issue: 3Ware 8506 cards PCI timings are marginal and fail
with some mainboards (mainly Tyan and Intel ones if I remember correctly).
AFAIK, this is fixed with the 950x series.

-- 
Francois Tigeot



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