Quoting John Allen <john.allen at dublinux.net>:
> I've bought a Highpoint 454 4 Channel Rocket raid, only to discover that
> under
> Linux the driver cracks up after a short period os drive access (lots of
> abort/resets), and then the /dev/sda device becomes unusable.
How do you know it's the driver? Does it work under some other OS?
I had something possibly similar happen, and it was a dodgy cable.
U320 controller (MPT Fusion thingy on Dell mobos):
Booting up was fine;
Light access was fine;
Concurrent/Heavy access caused all hell to break loose, aborts/resets/parity
errors scrolling up the screen faster than they could be read.
Once this started, a reboot was the only way of regaining sanity.
After a number of glaringly obvious clues (same problem with a replacement disk,
no problem with either/both of two U160 disks), I dropped the controller synch
speed from 160MHz to 80Mhz and the problem went away.
Got a new cable and the system worked at full speed.
Ronan
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