Re: SiI 3112A + Seagate HDs = still no go? [SOLVED]
Tejun Heo wrote: Chris Boot wrote: Some interesting developments! I installed a fresh copy of Windows, and all the VIA and nVidia and so on drivers. At some point during all this (a period of relatively heavy disk IO), the computer seemed to crash and I rebooted it. It then worked fine for a while, but during my perfmon testing it seemed to do the same thing. This time I left it for a while and it did eventually wake up again, so I'm guessing the controller is a bit fubared. Perfmon did indeed show several dips down to or very close to 0 during the write operation, with peaks up to 48 MB/sec, which is pretty respectable. So, time to replace the brand-new controller I guess. Now, do you think this is just my one particular controller card and a simple return would fix the problem, or is it more likely a problem with the whole range? It's an Innovision EIO SATA controller: http:// www.ivmm.com/eio/products/index.htm Would it be a safer bet to go for the Adaptec controller of the same variety? How reliable are they? I frankly don't know. Maybe it's just one faulty controller, connector or whatever. Maybe the card manufacturer screwed up somewhere. I mean, the only course I took in electronics is introductory digital circuits which used 74xx chips and push triggered clock on a breadboard. What would I know about gigahertz signaling error. :-p Though, one thing I can say is majority of 311x controllers don't seem to suffer from this problem. So, take your pick. Right, I've replaced my previous controller with an Adaptec AHA-1205SA, and I'm rebulding 2 RAID-1 arrays at 50MB/sec without a hitch. Thanks for your help diagnosing my problem, it was much appreciated! Many thanks, Chris -- Chris Boot [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.bootc.net/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
Re: SiI 3112A + Seagate HDs = still no go? [SOLVED]
Tejun Heo wrote: Chris Boot wrote: Some interesting developments! I installed a fresh copy of Windows, and all the VIA and nVidia and so on drivers. At some point during all this (a period of relatively heavy disk IO), the computer seemed to crash and I rebooted it. It then worked fine for a while, but during my perfmon testing it seemed to do the same thing. This time I left it for a while and it did eventually wake up again, so I'm guessing the controller is a bit fubared. Perfmon did indeed show several dips down to or very close to 0 during the write operation, with peaks up to 48 MB/sec, which is pretty respectable. So, time to replace the brand-new controller I guess. Now, do you think this is just my one particular controller card and a simple return would fix the problem, or is it more likely a problem with the whole range? It's an Innovision EIO SATA controller: http:// www.ivmm.com/eio/products/index.htm Would it be a safer bet to go for the Adaptec controller of the same variety? How reliable are they? I frankly don't know. Maybe it's just one faulty controller, connector or whatever. Maybe the card manufacturer screwed up somewhere. I mean, the only course I took in electronics is introductory digital circuits which used 74xx chips and push triggered clock on a breadboard. What would I know about gigahertz signaling error. :-p Though, one thing I can say is majority of 311x controllers don't seem to suffer from this problem. So, take your pick. Right, I've replaced my previous controller with an Adaptec AHA-1205SA, and I'm rebulding 2 RAID-1 arrays at 50MB/sec without a hitch. Thanks for your help diagnosing my problem, it was much appreciated! Many thanks, Chris -- Chris Boot [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.bootc.net/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
