Re: Which SATA Combos To Consider?

2005-02-21 Thread Johny Ågotnes
Jeff, I swapped cables and tried 3 different RAM chips, so yep, did that :) Question on that - does the RAM 'matter' as the driver doesn't use it? I.e. is it used by the onboard control logic as cache? Also tried moving the card to different PCI slots, still no luck :( Now that server is my

Re: Which SATA Combos To Consider?

2005-02-21 Thread Johny Ågotnes
Jeff, I swapped cables and tried 3 different RAM chips, so yep, did that :) Question on that - does the RAM 'matter' as the driver doesn't use it? I.e. is it used by the onboard control logic as cache? Also tried moving the card to different PCI slots, still no luck :( Now that server is my

Re: Which SATA Combos To Consider?

2005-02-17 Thread Jeff Garzik
Danny Cox wrote: I've been mostly lurking here for awhile now, just seeing how things are going. I've seen various drives on a blacklist, and various controllers that do this or that well, but have problems doing foo. There also seem to have been a Strange Interaction as well, but that's

Re: Which SATA Combos To Consider?

2005-02-17 Thread Johny Ågotnes
Just a quick note on the SX4 Card - I have seen data corruption on hard-drives too in the simplest possible setup, so I'd stay clear of that card until further notice. Mine is sitting in a cupboard right now, awaiting 'someone' (me, if I get some time to learn low-level kernel drivers)