On Jan 17, 2008 6:23 PM, Greg Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 17 Jan 2008, Scott Marlowe wrote: > > > On Jan 17, 2008 2:17 PM, Sean Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> two3-ware cards, one 9640SE-24 and one 9640SE-16 > > Sounds like they're sharing something they shouldn't be. I'm not real > > familiar with PCI-express. Aren't those the ones that use up to 16 > > channels for I/O? Can you divide it to 8 and 8 for each PCI-express > > slot in the BIOS maybe, or something like that? > > I can't find the 9640SE-24/16 anywhere, but presuming these are similar to > (or are actually) the 9650SE cards then each of them is using 8 lanes of > the 16 available. I'd need to know the exact motherboard or system to > even have a clue what the options are for adjusting the BIOS and whether > they are shared or independant. > > But I haven't seen one where there's any real ability to adjust how the > I/O is partitioned beyond adjusting what slot you plug things into so > that's probably a dead end anyway. Given the original symptoms, one thing > I would be suspicious of though is whether there's some sort of IRQ > conflict going on. Sadly we still haven't left that kind of junk behind > even on current PC motherboards.
Thanks, Greg. After a little digging, 3-ware suggested moving one of the cards, also. We will probably give that a try. I'll also look into the bios, but since the machine is running as a fileserver, there is precious little time for downtime tinkering. FYI, here are the specs on the server. http://www.thinkmate.com/System/8U_Dual_Xeon_i2SS40-8U_Storage_Server Sean
