On Wednesday 19 October 2005 21:15, Brooks Davis wrote: > On Thu, Oct 20, 2005 at 04:30:48AM +0200, Alson van der Meulen wrote: > > (Please CC me in replies as I'm not a subscriber of this list) > > > > Update: I tested with an i810-based mainboard (Celeron 1GHz, RTL8139 > > ethernet, Promise SATAII 150 TX4 controller, 3 SATA disks in RAID 5, > > FreeBSD 6.0-RC1). It remained stable for two hours. I suspect this is > > because it has far less bandwith (iostat showed only about 3MB/s to the > > disks, as opposed to 12MB/s with the i915 mainboard). After I added a dd > > if=/dev/zero of=foo bs=128k (this increased the bandwidth usage to the > > disk to about 9MB/s according to iostat), it crashed in about 40 > > minutes. This suggests that it crashes because of the large amount of > > I/O. However, it's only about 10MB/s per disk (for three disks), so it > > doesn't seem to be that exotic to me. > > > > Since this is a completely different mainboard, it seems clearly a > > software issue to me. The built-in ICH6 controller works fine however, > > so it may be PDC*0518/SII311* specific (which basically means any PCI > > SATA controller available locally). > > The SII3112 is a piece of crap that won't work reliably. Order > something better (Soren recommends Promise cards). > > -- Brooks
Why does the SII3112 work better in FreeBSD 5.4 than in 6.0? I have a Highpoint 1820 on order but it still bugs me having to toss hardware that worked in 5.4 inorder to keep current. -Mike _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"