Powersupply, 5 SATA drives can be very hungry ... How does it fail, on reboot, after install, during install, etc... And have you tried making the soft raid with 4 drives instead of 5 ? Cheers Szemir
On October 31, 2008 14:16, Chris q wrote: > Thanks, > > Found that and did that already. > > On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 2:13 PM, bogi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > http://linuxrevolution.blogspot.com/2008/09/ubuntu-and-asus-p5q-e-motherb > >oard.html > > > > On October 31, 2008 14:07, Chris q wrote: > > > I guess it would be drive xpert. Basically, there are 8 sata ports on > > > the motherboard and you can turn two of them into a normal sata port, > > > or have them basically raid 1'd > > > I had it set as a normal port to software raid 6 drives and have one > > > > extra > > > > > drive seperate for / and /home. I don't really need help with software > > > raid, I'm pretty familiar. I just am trying to figure out why the > > > > assembly > > > > > keeps failing, and the only thing I can think of is asus doing > > > something stupid like piggy backing their drive xpert on one of the > > > six sata ports on the board already on the main controller. > > > > > > On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 1:47 PM, Mark Carlson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > wrote: > > > > On 10/31/08, Chris q <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > > > > > Anyone have any experience with the asus p5q? I'm trying to build a > > > > > > > > software > > > > > > > > > raid array (6 drives) on it and the thing can't seem to stop > > > > > failing. > > > > > > > > After > > > > > > > > > having it fail twice, it looks like it was the drive connected to > > > > > the > > > > > > > > xpress > > > > > > > > > (insert marketing crap here) sata port bringing down a second drive > > > > as > > > > > > well. > > > > > > > > > Is there any way I can check to see if Asus was stupid enough to > > > > piggy > > > > > > back > > > > > > > > > their xpress ports on another sata channel? > > > > > > > > > > Thanks, > > > > > > > > > > Chris > > > > > > > > A few questions: > > > > - What is an xpress port? I see "express gate" in their product > > > > literature, and "drive xpert" > > > > - What kind of RAID array? 0? 1? 10? 5? 6? JBOD? This is very > > > > important... > > > > - What are you using to do the software RAID? > > > > > > > > -Mark C. > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > clug-talk mailing list > > > > [email protected] > > > > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > > > > Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) > > > > **Please remove these lines when replying > > > > _______________________________________________ > > clug-talk mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > > Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) > > **Please remove these lines when replying _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
