RE: [suse-amd64] AMD Athlon 64 Linux hardware sanity check (not w ith SATA!)
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
Sorry no I haven't done that. I'd be a little leery of pulling the cables out by hand. I'm running raid 0 so unfortunately it wont rebuild the array. I'm using the sata array for temp storage of uncompressed data files. If I loose a drive then its no big deal at the moment. I might be able to run a rebuild test with raid 1. I'll take a look over the weekend. I only have 2 drives so I cant do raid 5 or 10. Mark Hulslander, Ryan wrote:
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!)
<snip>
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
For what its worth... I created a raid 1 array within the 3ware bios utility with 2x250GB drives. I copied about 120GB of data to the array, then shut the system down and disconnected 1 of the sata cables and then booted it back up. The array was still functional but obviously had no redundancy since a drive was missing. I then copied about 30GB more data into the array, then shut the system down and reconnected the other sata drive. This forced an array rebuild since the drives were now out of sync. Everything worked fine. This was not a comprehensive test by no means but I wanted to at least see if the controller could do a raid 1 array rebuild with amd64. So far no problems to report. Mark Hulslander, Ryan wrote:
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!)
<snip>
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
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