Guy McArthur wrote:
> Since installing a drive on ide3 (the hpt366) I've had sporadic lockups.
> Previously I had a single drive on ide0, absolutely rock stable, and this
> was with an early (either nj or l?) bios.
>
> With two drives on ide3 (on an ultra-66 cable) it is easy to freeze it
> solid (with the hard drive light on) simply by doing a bulk transfer
> between the two. With one of the drives back on ide0, it's much less
> frequent but still has happened. (And this is after flash to qq_beta).
>
> So, is there a good PCI I/O card that supports ultra-66 (and maybe
> beyond)?
I use a "promise ata66" card in my fileserver. Runs 27Mb per second
out of my maxtors without any trouble.
(My BP6 is more or less diskless:
Filesystem 1024-blocks Used Available Capacity Mounted on
/dev/hda3 1814192 1496052 225980 87% /
/dev/hda1 8198 3473 4302 45% /boot
abraracourcix:/home 10079356 9066524 500820 95% /home
abraracourcix:/home2 12173376 10989252 807092 93% /home2
abraracourcix:/opt 5996596 2963224 2728756 52% /opt
abraracourcix:/recover
59088492 46114108 9972864 82% /recover
abraracourcix:/usr/src
12507868 6653332 5219168 56% /usr/src
abraracourcix:/var/spool/mail
12173376 10989252 807092 93% /var/spool/mail
abraracourcix:/usr/local/bin
12173376 10989252 807092 93% /usr/local/bin
abra:/cdrom 4548028 4548028 0 100% /cdrom2
abra is the fileserver with /recover and /recover2 the 60Gb Maxtors on
the promise controller.
)
Roger.
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