Re: [Vserver] a bit off topic but good to know if there is a known problem

2007-03-07 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Tue, Mar 06, 2007 at 10:22:39PM +0100, eyck wrote: I believe you are talking about simple SATA controllers, not real hardware raid setups? His point is that cheap simple SATA mdadm outperforms very expensive hardware RAID. For the price of hardware RAID, I'd invest in more spindles, RAM,

Re: [Vserver] a bit off topic but good to know if there is a known problem

2007-03-06 Thread Herbert Poetzl
On Tue, Mar 06, 2007 at 03:11:51AM +, Martin wrote: On Mon, 2007-03-05 at 20:24 +0100, Herbert Poetzl wrote: On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 07:43:51AM -0500, Chuck wrote: On Monday 05 March 2007 06:15, Herbert Poetzl wrote: snip controllers. i would rather see the boss change the case

Re: [Vserver] a bit off topic but good to know if there is a known problem

2007-03-06 Thread eyck
note that the 'performance' in many cases is a myth, for several reasons, mainly because: - hardware raid has 2-256MB cache, software has 1-4GB - hardware raid has a single channel to the host, while proper setup soft raid can burst over N channels simultaniously (and will do so,

Re: [Vserver] a bit off topic but good to know if there is a known problem

2007-03-06 Thread Chuck
On Tuesday 06 March 2007 16:22, eyck wrote: the controller is a silicone image 3114 which is a hybrid hardware/software raid controller.. similar in theory to a winmodem. so far only windows drivers support it properly according to SI. the linux drivers in the kernel do not assist the si

Re: [Vserver] a bit off topic but good to know if there is a known problem

2007-03-05 Thread Herbert Poetzl
On Sun, Mar 04, 2007 at 05:42:01PM -0500, Chuck wrote: i have seen many of you have similar setups so if there is a known problem we should all know about it... has anyone heard of a problem with the sda channel in the SATA on board silicone image 3114 controller in general or on a tyan 2882D

Re: [Vserver] a bit off topic but good to know if there is a known problem

2007-03-05 Thread Chuck
On Monday 05 March 2007 06:15, Herbert Poetzl wrote: On Sun, Mar 04, 2007 at 05:42:01PM -0500, Chuck wrote: i have seen many of you have similar setups so if there is a known problem we should all know about it... has anyone heard of a problem with the sda channel in the SATA on board

Re: [Vserver] a bit off topic but good to know if there is a known problem

2007-03-05 Thread Chuck
On Monday 05 March 2007 06:15, Herbert Poetzl wrote: On Sun, Mar 04, 2007 at 05:42:01PM -0500, Chuck wrote: i have seen many of you have similar setups so if there is a known problem we should all know about it... has anyone heard of a problem with the sda channel in the SATA on board

Re: [Vserver] a bit off topic but good to know if there is a known problem

2007-03-05 Thread Herbert Poetzl
On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 07:43:51AM -0500, Chuck wrote: On Monday 05 March 2007 06:15, Herbert Poetzl wrote: On Sun, Mar 04, 2007 at 05:42:01PM -0500, Chuck wrote: i have seen many of you have similar setups so if there is a known problem we should all know about it... has anyone

Re: [Vserver] a bit off topic but good to know if there is a known problem

2007-03-05 Thread Chuck
On Monday 05 March 2007 14:24, Herbert Poetzl wrote: thanks for all the info!! after placing a call to SI i am told that our drives are definitely of the same family and that the WD drives I looked at as replacements would work perfectly. They confirmed the behavior I am experiencing. thanks

Re: [Vserver] a bit off topic but good to know if there is a known problem

2007-03-05 Thread Martin
On Mon, 2007-03-05 at 20:24 +0100, Herbert Poetzl wrote: On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 07:43:51AM -0500, Chuck wrote: On Monday 05 March 2007 06:15, Herbert Poetzl wrote: snip controllers. i would rather see the boss change the case to a 2u and put a real hardware raid controller in on a 2

[Vserver] a bit off topic but good to know if there is a known problem

2007-03-04 Thread Chuck
i have seen many of you have similar setups so if there is a known problem we should all know about it... has anyone heard of a problem with the sda channel in the SATA on board silicone image 3114 controller in general or on a tyan 2882D series motherboard using opteron processors? we are