On 4/19/07, Jerry McBride <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hey Chris.... Would you take the time and post what motherboard the Supermicro is plugged into and whether you are running 32bit or 64bit Gentoo? Thank you, in advance. -- Jerry McBride -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Sure thing. :) Mobo: Asus P4S800-MX 1x Supermicro AOC-SAT2-MV8 (replaced 2x Promise SATA300TX4) 1x Promise SATA300TX4 The Supermicro is hooked into just a normal PCI slot, not PCI-X. I'm sure there is a performance hit but I can't notice it if there is. The 8 drives hooked to it are hooked via 2 multilane cables to an external enclosure. The Promise is driving 4 drives in the server itself. This is the cable kit I bought 2 of: http://www.cooldrives.com/multilane-adapter-kit.html Gentoo is installed on a small 20g drive (hda). I'm running a 32bit Gentoo. I upgraded from 2.6.17-r8 to 2.6.19-r5. The reason was .19 had the Marvel SATA driver in it. mv_sata or sata_mv, I can't remember offhand the right way to type it. I just compiled (with genkernel) the Marvel driver into the kernel, and booted up the box with the Supermicro installed and my Raid5 array on those 8 disks was back up with no issue. I originally built the server with the 3 Promise cards in there. when I found out about the Supermicro card, I looked in my config for .17 and did off hand see a Marvel driver but it was in the .19 one so I upgraded. This frees up a PCI slot so I can put in a gigabit nic since the built on nic is only 10/100. :) I know of others that are running uber raid servers with multiple of those Supermicro cards installed in a system. I know of at least 1 person on some boards I peruse that is running with 30 drives w/ 4 of them in a box. But I don't think he's running Gentoo. :( Promise as a PCI-X card as well but it won't work in a normal PCI slot like the Supermicro one will. Plus the Promise card is more expensive. # lspci <snip> 00:09.0 Mass storage controller: Promise Technology, Inc. PDC40718 (SATA 300 TX4) (rev 02) 00:0a.0 SCSI storage controller: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. MV88SX6081 8-port SATA II PCI-X Controller (rev 09) Hope this helps. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
