---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Chris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 5:30 PM Subject: Re: [clug-talk] asus P5Q To: CLUG General <[email protected]>
No, it was still failing using that port, so I bought a sata adaptor and am putting the boot drive on that. If the raid array continues to fail after putting all six drives on the normal sata ports I'm taking the whole thing back. I would still really like to know how those drive xpress ports are wired though. Chris On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 4:34 PM, Mark Carlson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So it's fixed now? > > -Mark C. > > On 10/31/08, Chris q <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Nothing is plugged into the ezbackup port any more. When it was failing > one > > of the six drives were plugged into the orange port, which is the first > of > > the two drive xpress ports ( the only one that works in normal mode). > > > > > > On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 2:31 PM, Mark Carlson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > > > > > > > On 10/31/08, Chris q <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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. > > > > > > Where do you have the drives plugged in? > > > > > > Port 1 (the second port) on the "Sil5723 SATA controller is used for > > EZ-back" > > > > > http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview.aspx?catid=29&threadid=2200046 > > > > > > You may not need help with your software RAID, but without knowing > > > exactly what you are doing all any of us can do is guess. > > > > > > > > http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html#beprecise<http://www.catb.org/%7Eesr/faqs/smart-questions.html#beprecise> > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -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 >
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