Well I found that anger and rage does pay off :) I was having a problem with my sata controllers not supporting drives larger then 500GB. I found that there is a new bios for this chipset that fixes this. Well this morning I found a magnifying glass so I could read the numbers on the eprom on my controller and googled it and found that it is a write once only eprom!!! that would explain why it hangs when I try to flash it.
Well after dealing with this last night and then finding this out this morning I resorted to anger. I litterally removed the eprom off one of the cards. I figured I dont use the raid on the card anyways. Well after doing this I booted it up and everything works :-) The controller bios no longer loads, and that was what was hanging with the large drives. Granted I have lost the ability to ever use "raid" on this controller, but I use mdadm anyways. I removed the eprom from the other card and just finished creating my array and am now copying data. On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 9:54 AM, Doran L. Barton <[email protected]>wrote: > On Friday 27 March 2009 08:57:30 Matt Nelson wrote: > > I have used two Rosewill RC-209 sata controllers, using the silicon image > > chipset, for various reason's am looking to get new controllers. Can I > get > > some advice on what to get? > > Have you looked at this? > > http://linuxmafia.com/faq/Hardware/sata.html > > -- > Doran L. "Fozz" Barton <[email protected]> > Open-source developer, sysadmin, consultant, and all-around geeky dude > "Drunk gets nine months in violin case" > -- Headline seen in newspaper > > > /* > PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net > Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug > Don't fear the penguin. > */ > /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
