Re: [CentOS] 3ware 9650 issues

2008-06-23 Thread Florin Andrei
Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: I've been having no end of issues with a 3ware 9650SE-24M8 in a server that's coming on a year old. I've got 24 WDC WD5001ABYS drives (500GB) hooked to it, running as a single RAID6 w/ a hot spare. These issues boil down to the card periodically throwing errors like

Re: [CentOS] 3ware 9650 issues

2008-06-23 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Sun, 22 Jun 2008 at 1:37pm, Peter Arremann wrote On Sunday 22 June 2008 12:04:47 am Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: I've been having no end of issues with a 3ware 9650SE-24M8 in a server that's coming on a year old. I've got 24 WDC WD5001ABYS drives (500GB) hooked to it, running as a single RAID

Re: [CentOS] 3ware 9650 issues

2008-06-22 Thread Peter Arremann
On Sunday 22 June 2008 12:04:47 am Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: > I've been having no end of issues with a 3ware 9650SE-24M8 in a server > that's coming on a year old. I've got 24 WDC WD5001ABYS drives (500GB) > hooked to it, running as a single RAID6 w/ a hot spare. What size power supply do you h

RE: [CentOS] 3ware 9650 issues

2008-06-21 Thread Joseph L. Casale
>Have other folks had good luck with this card? What sorts of configs are you >running? I'm in the position of needing more storage, and I'm a bit gun shy on >3ware at the moment... Does that drive have a jumper to slow it down to 1.5Gb transfer rate? Cheap controllers and drives just cant do it

Re: [CentOS] 3ware 9650 issues

2008-06-21 Thread Jeff
On Sat, Jun 21, 2008 at 11:04 PM, Joshua Baker-LePain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've been having no end of issues with a 3ware 9650SE-24M8 in a server > that's coming on a year old. I've got 24 WDC WD5001ABYS drives (500GB) > hooked to it, running as a single RAID6 w/ a hot spare. These issues

Re: [CentOS] 3ware 9650 issues

2008-06-21 Thread nate
Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: > periodically throwing errors like the following: > > sd 1:0:0:0: WARNING: (0x06:0x002C): Command (0x8a) timed out, resetting > card. Wondering if you have scheduled automatic media scans of all of the disks in the array? Perhaps you have a disk that is going bad causi

Re: [CentOS] 3ware 9650 issues

2008-06-21 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Sun, 22 Jun 2008 at 1:01am, Ruslan Sivak wrote Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: On Sat, 21 Jun 2008 at 9:12pm, John R Pierce wrote I have no experience with that raid card, most of our larger systems use external SAN storage, but I will say that, IMHO, is a very large raid-6. we usually don't m

Re: [CentOS] 3ware 9650 issues

2008-06-21 Thread Ruslan Sivak
Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: On Sat, 21 Jun 2008 at 9:12pm, John R Pierce wrote I have no experience with that raid card, most of our larger systems use external SAN storage, but I will say that, IMHO, is a very large raid-6. we usually don't make single raid sets much large than 7-8 drives,

Re: [CentOS] 3ware 9650 issues

2008-06-21 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Sat, 21 Jun 2008 at 9:12pm, John R Pierce wrote Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: I've been having no end of issues with a 3ware 9650SE-24M8 in a server that's coming on a year old. I've got 24 WDC WD5001ABYS drives (500GB) hooked to it, running as a single RAID6 w/ a hot spare. These issues boi

Re: [CentOS] 3ware 9650 issues

2008-06-21 Thread John R Pierce
Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: I've been having no end of issues with a 3ware 9650SE-24M8 in a server that's coming on a year old. I've got 24 WDC WD5001ABYS drives (500GB) hooked to it, running as a single RAID6 w/ a hot spare. These issues boil down to the card periodically throwing errors like

[CentOS] 3ware 9650 issues

2008-06-21 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
I've been having no end of issues with a 3ware 9650SE-24M8 in a server that's coming on a year old. I've got 24 WDC WD5001ABYS drives (500GB) hooked to it, running as a single RAID6 w/ a hot spare. These issues boil down to the card periodically throwing errors like the following: sd 1:0:0:0