Re: [CentOS] Re: 3ware 9650 issues

2008-06-23 Thread Gary Richardson
1500W should be plenty, but the card may not be getting enough power. On a much smaller system (3 drives, 1 3ware card), I had power problems. I used a 400W power supply and the +-5V rail was only delivering 3.9V. I kept losing drives. This was an 'expensive' Antec power supply. I switched to a b

Re: [CentOS] Re: 3ware 9650 issues

2008-06-23 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Sun, 22 Jun 2008 at 10:23am, Scott Silva wrote on 6-21-2008 9:04 PM Joshua Baker-LePain spake the following: This of course leads to a several hour downtime as the system has to be powered down (not just rebooted) and then the volume needs to be fscked. I've been back and forth with both

[CentOS] Re: 3ware 9650 issues

2008-06-22 Thread Scott Silva
on 6-21-2008 9:04 PM Joshua Baker-LePain spake the following: 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 car