Set it to 32. And then see if it boots, but you might need to reinstall the OS after setting it.
Most boards default to 64, but I think every controller I have used from 3Ware, Adaptec, and I think even some Promise cards, has had issues with that setting. In servers I've built using the 9650SE 2p, 4p, and just yesterday on a 12p card, (that I got cheap off ebay) they have all had stability problems because of that setting. The server I just built has four 'green' 5400 rpm Samsung 2TB drives set up as RAID 5. I had just installed centos and was setting the server up, when programs started stalling and there were file checks happening at boot. At first I thought it was because of the 5.4TB size of the volume - that's the biggest Ive ever tried. But on this Supermicro board, I had to dig into the bios to find the setting for each PCI slot and set it to 20h, which is hex for 32. I love 3Ware cards. I get amazing performance from these drives. About 199 MB/s. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev _______________________________________________ Efw-user mailing list Efw-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/efw-user
