Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm...
Or, put somewhat more succinctly, "Same damn thing happens to me." I have
two of the cards, both the eight-drive variety, and both with latest
firmware. The one that's fully-populated works like a champ; the one with
four drives in it complains that one is kaput. I keep meaning to take the
system down and get "gnarly" with it, but, dammit, it's got my stuff on
it! ;-) Of course, since it's not currently in RAID-5 mode, but instead
is simply spanning three drives with no redundancy, I am now more
vulnerable to potential hardware problems. My hardware configuration is
somewhat similar to yours:
Abit something-or-other dual Pentium III motherboard
6480 3Ware card (leastwise, I think that's the model -- it's a 6400-series
with eight ports)
Three Matrox 160 GB drives, and one 100 GB Matrox drive in RAID-5 (which
obviously means they other three come down to 100 GB capacity, which is
fine for me for now...), and a 20 GB boot drive.
Anyone else?
-Ken
On Thu, 20 Jun 2002, Todd Littlefield wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I recently decided to build an array for storage purposes.
> It is a RAID 5 array with 3 Maxtor drives and is running under RedHat
> 7.3.
> The array is fairly fast but runs into a problem... After I copy about
> 10 GB to the array, it "loses" a disk and hangs the system.
>
> If the system is rebooted, the 3ware bios reports, I forget
> the exact terminology but, one of the disks is bad. I then rebuild
> the array and the same thing happens.
>
> 3ware support has been contacted and they state that there are
> certain irrecoverable errors that might happen on the drive itself that
> can cause the problem.
>
> The raid is currently scrapped. I've connected the drives to
> the onboard UDMA66 controller and created partitions. Then ran
> badblocks
> with write mode turned on. The output file was empty, I am assuming
> this
> means no bad blocks. I then formatted the drive and ran dump32fs on it,
> still nothing.
>
> The controller has come up before on the list. Has anyone
> had similar experiences with it? Am I just unlucky with this particular
> board? And last but not least, am I doing something completely
> sdrawkcab?
>
> Any and all help is appreciated. Thanks.
>
> System specifics:
>
> A-BIT BE6-II
> PIII - 733
> 512 MB
> 3ware 6410
> Asus GeForce II GTS
> SoundBlaster Live! Value
> 3c905
> IBM 30 GB boot drive
> 3 x Maxtor 80 GB (hopefully in a RAID 5 config...)
>
> RedHat 7.3
>
> 3ware firmware 6.9
> Stock RH7.3 driver (matches latest on their website)
> Latest 3dmd (web based config utility for 3ware cards)
>
> All 3ware software at latest versions specified on their website...
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