Messages in this thread | ![/](/images/icornerl.gif) | | From | joe briggs <> | Subject | Re: Single P4, many IDE PCI cards == trouble?? | Date | Sun, 31 Aug 2003 11:46:03 -0400 |
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I am successful in using the Tyan 2460/2466 motherboard with a 3ware 8-channel IDE controller and 8 WD1200 drivers, and a single WD800 IDE system drive, and 4 bt878 frame grabbers.
However, on a Gigabyte GA7VXP via 400 with Athlon 2400 MP with onboard Promise 20276 controller with 2 WD1200's and a WD800 for the system drive and 4 framegrabbers, I get IDE DMA timeouts which are a symptom for future file system corruption. I am using the /dev/ataraid device, and have not tried this configuration using Promise's driver which creates a /dev/sda1 SCSI device out of it. I have tried 3ware's 7000 controller with the kernel-included (GPL) /dev/sda driver, and it results in lower probability of file system corruption.
On Sunday 31 August 2003 08:43 am, Hans-Peter Jansen wrote: > Hi Nick, > > On Friday 29 August 2003 16:00, Nick Urbanik wrote: > > Performance is a relatively minor issue compared with stability and > > low cost. > > > > Is there _anyone_ who is using a number of ATA133 IDE disks (>=6), > > each on its own IDE channel, on a number of PCI IDE cards, and > > doing so successfully and reliably? I begin to suspect not! If > > so, please tell us what motherboard, IDE cards you are using. I > > used to imagine that a terabyte of RAID storage on one P4 machine > > with ordinary cheap IDE cards with software RAID would be feasible. > > I believe it is not (although I cannot afford to play musical > > motherboards). > > It is. I'm running several pretty stable systems with IDE SW RAID 5 > on top of Promise TX2/100 (~30 Eur) controllers. There was a long > standing limit of two cards from this type, which seems to be removed > lately (as Alan stated). At least, the test system hasn't fallen on > it's face, when adding a third controller, and attached devices acted > as expected without freezing, throwing DMA errors, and the like. > > Of course, the usual "don't buy the latest and greatest hardware, > if the manufacturer isn't fully commited to linux support" applies. > Promise isn't! > > Pete > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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