There is of course the slight chance that you just got yourself a faulty mobo. try lspci and lspci -t , should give you some idea regarding the bus structure. But your raid should not fail unless there is a hardware issue, specially that you built the raid in the first place. cheers Szemir On October 31, 2008 17:31, Chris q wrote: > ---------- 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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