Re: [gentoo-user] Flaky IDE
On Monday 19 September 2005 01:17, Michael Crute wrote: I am running an ITE IT8212 IDE Raid controller card with a 60GB and a 40GB drive in a striping array. I have about 60GB of data on the thing and it only lets me copy off perhaps a gig at a time before I get a mysterious I/O Error that requires that I reboot to reset the raid card (it doesn't crash Linux but the raid is inaccessible until a reboot is completed). Anyone heard of such a thing? I am totally lost here. At the very least is there a way to reset the blasted card without rebooting the machine? It is also worthy of noting that my motherboard has two onboard ITE SATA raid controllers built in. Any thoughts would be appreciated. get a new cable? is everything cool enough? why do you think, it is the controller? and last point: if the controller is not explicitly marked as hot-swapable, and the board able to do hotswap too, you have to proper shutdown to change hardware. Since I suspect, that it is a PCI controller, and PCI is not hotplug/hotswapable, the answer should be no. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Flaky IDE
On 9/18/05, Volker Armin Hemmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: get a new cable?is everything cool enough? Yes to both why do you think, it is the controller? No reason really its just a guess. Plus the hard drives are brand new. and last point: if the controller is not explicitly marked as hot-swapable,and the board able to do hotswap too, you have to proper shutdown to change hardware.Since I suspect, that it is a PCI controller, and PCI is nothotplug/hotswapable, the answer should be no. I'm not really looking to change hardware just simply re-initialize that specific PCI card so I don't have to reboot to do it. There ought to be a software command to do this, but perhaps no. -Mike -- Michael E. CruteSoftware DeveloperSoftGroup Development CorporationLinux, because reboots are for installing hardware.In a world without walls and fences, who needs windows and gates?
Re: [gentoo-user] Flaky IDE
On Monday 19 September 2005 02:00, Michael Crute wrote: I'm not really looking to change hardware just simply re-initialize that specific PCI card so I don't have to reboot to do it. There ought to be a software command to do this, but perhaps no. -Mike you can reset the ide-bus with hdparm (dangerous) or unload the module and reload it (also not without risks). Hm brand new harddisks can be defect too. I had one once - it was damaged from the very first second. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
