Mark - I hate to ask this - but did you happen "monkey test" it? (i.e. pull the power cable or SATA interface cable from the drive while it was hammering away on something)? How about replacing it with a blank drive and noting if on a reboot, the drive pair rebuilt themselves in sync properly? If so, then methinks ya just solved my dilemna! Thx! Ryan
-----Original Message----- From: Mark Horton [mailto:mark@nostromo.net] Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 2004 5:30 PM To: Alan Gray Cc: Hulslander, Ryan; suse-amd64@suse.com Subject: Re: [suse-amd64] AMD Athlon 64 Linux hardware sanity check (not w ith SATA!)
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The suse 9 install automatically recoginzed the 3ware sata controller and loaded the proper driver. I bought the 3ware because someone told me they had good linux support and so far its performed without a problem.
I gave up on SATA(N) a while back because of all the woes and went back to $C$I. If the 8506-4LP does work, I could use the xtra disk space.
I have IDE, SATA and SCSI on the same system and it works without a hitch. I have the OS on the IDE drive for simplicity. The sata array is for bulk storage and the scsi array is for the database.
Mark