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I would also make sure that the BIOS is up to date. You can get your bios version from within Linux with the following command: dmidecode -s bios-version Check the output against the available downloads from the motherboard maker's website. Chris q wrote: > here's the output, I'm not exactly sure how to read it. How would I > determine if the mobo is faulty? > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/chris# lspci > -t > > > -[0000:00]-+-00.0 > > > > +-01.0-[0000:01]----00.0 > > > > +-1a.0 > > > > +-1a.1 > > > > +-1a.2 > > > +-1a.7 > +-1b.0 > +-1c.0-[0000:03]-- > +-1c.5-[0000:02]----00.0 > +-1d.0 > +-1d.1 > +-1d.2 > +-1d.7 > +-1e.0-[0000:04]--+-00.0 > | \-03.0 > +-1f.0 > +-1f.2 > \-1f.3 > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/chris# lspci > 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 4 Series Chipset DRAM Controller > (rev 03) > 00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 4 Series Chipset PCI Express Root > Port (rev 03) > 00:1a.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) USB > UHCI Controller #4 > 00:1a.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) USB > UHCI Controller #5 > 00:1a.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) USB > UHCI Controller #6 > 00:1a.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) USB2 > EHCI Controller #2 > 00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) HD Audio > Controller > 00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) PCI Express > Port 1 > 00:1c.5 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) PCI Express > Port 6 > 00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) USB > UHCI Controller #1 > 00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) USB > UHCI Controller #2 > 00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) USB > UHCI Controller #3 > 00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) USB2 > EHCI Controller #1 > 00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 PCI Bridge (rev 90) > 00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801JIR (ICH10R) LPC Interface > Controller > 00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) SATA > AHCI Controller > 00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) SMBus Controller > 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation G94 [GeForce 9600 > GT] (rev a1) > 02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Attansic Technology Corp. L1 Gigabit > Ethernet Adapter (rev b0) > 04:00.0 Mass storage controller: Promise Technology, Inc. PDC40775 (SATA > 300 TX2plus) (rev 02) > 04:03.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Agere Systems FW323 (rev 70) > > > > > On Sat, Nov 1, 2008 at 1:03 AM, bogi <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote: > > 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] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> > > Date: Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 5:30 PM > > Subject: Re: [clug-talk] asus P5Q > > To: CLUG General <[email protected] <mailto:[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] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote: > > > So it's fixed now? > > > > > > -Mark C. > > > > > > On 10/31/08, Chris q <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > <mailto:[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] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> > > > > > > wrote: > > > > > On 10/31/08, Chris q <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > <mailto:[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 > <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><http://www > > > >.catb.org/%7Eesr/faqs/smart-questions.html#beprecise > <http://catb.org/%7Eesr/faqs/smart-questions.html#beprecise>> > > > > > > > > > -Mark C. > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > > clug-talk mailing list > > > > > [email protected] <mailto:[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] <mailto:[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] <mailto:[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] <mailto:[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 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFJDLLQwRXgH3rKGfMRAo9JAKCAh+xMMgD4IhS5Y6h6cHKECgqovgCgiouP hO4+Sdn4HAtWc9d6HmJ2eq0= =5eWf -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ 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
