Hey Sebastian:
Actually, I experienced a (somewhat) related problem, today. I took a
call through the usual inter-office 'hot potato' routine, though this
one was for the recordbooks.
The guy on the other end of the line was curious why _his_ RAID array
was not being detected. This array was of the md-based variety (as yours
probably is), except that he had created a RAID 1 array using 4 USB
harddisks, with a hot spare! Following a recent power bump, all data on
this array was rendered unusable (no UPS, either). The kicker was that
he was using this half-baked scheme as his lone backup solution on a
series of _production_ Ubuntu servers.
Well, enough of the braindamaged user stories. Were you able to
replicate the timing issue on the nForce SATA controller. I have had
rather poor experience with SiI controllers, though I recently had an
excuse to splurge for one of these:
http://www.areca.com.tw/products/html/pciE-sata.htm
I have been _extremely_ happy with its performance in FreeBSD. Good luck!
---
Brandon Mitchell
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