Ok first a little info about my server. q6600 ga-ep45-ud3p 8x1TB samsung disks 6x ich10r sata 2x jmicron sata 20363 AHCI 1x jmicron IDE 20363 AHCI 120gb samsung spinpoint PATA drive connected to jmicron along with a dvdrom PCI0680 Ultra ATA-133 Host Controller as the alternative IDE controller then the jmicron
A little background of what i want/have setup: I have setup a 6000mb raidz2 storage array, and i run VM's for windows and Ubuntu to serve anything that i cant do so on OS, like daap firefly server, utorrent, encoding etc. This has been fun and a good learning experience setting it all up and everything is working perfectly accept for a few things which i will explain now. First problem i had was a single drive kept having write fails and the raid was becoming degraded, so i tested the drive and it passed all tests and then moved onto checking the ports/cables and found out that it would fail every drive that's on that one specific port. The motherboard i was using was a p35-ds3r which already had broken sound so i figured the board must have a faulty port and i brought a new ga-ep45-ud3p after reading that it works really well with OS. Now i put it all back together and i get the exact same error's and had a fit as i just spent a lot of money on a new board for nothing. I remembered at this point that DVD ROM's and jmicron dont tend to get along so well, and after pulling it out i stopped having the failing drive. This was good news as i did not need a DVD ROM after installation, then while transferring files from the system drive to the raid i was experiencing a new problem, the whole PC would stop responding. So that's when i fished around a nd found an old Silicon Image 0680 IDE controller and threw that in. Now everything seems to be working with no errors and no crashes BUT. Now everything to do with the system drive goes so slow, and im talking about taking 2 hours to copy a 4gb file, to load a VM about 10-20 minutes etc. At the moment once the system loads its working... slowly, and this is good but not a long term solution by a long shot. So i tried out booting the system disk from USB, this was a promising idea as it leaves more space in the case for more disks in a later expansion. But as usual this presented another problem, a disk with an NTFS partition can boot fine, but any disk with OS installed on it causes the PC to hang at post... im guessing this is when its scanning the disks in the system. This is my horror story so far and if anyone has any idea's of whats going on could they please help me out, anything that gets me full speed system disk without costing a bucket load more of money would be great. My next option im thinking about is buying a http://www.sunix.com.tw/it/de/Product_Detail.php?cate=2&class_a_id=34&sid=367 but that's going to cost me $80 and then on top of that i need to buy a new sata drive as i do not have any more. plus i believe silicon image controllers aren't that well supported. Thanks for reading and any help you may give -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-help mailing list opensolaris-help@opensolaris.org
