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From: "Steven Hartland" <killing@multiplay.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: Adaptec 2820sa redux, and possible problems
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Ensel Sharon wrote:
> On Wed, 21 Jun 2006, Steven Hartland wrote:
> 
> The drives are Hitachi 500 GB 7200 RPM 16meg:
> 
> HDS725050KLA360
> 
> Adaptec told me today that these drives are verified or approved or
> something with that card...
> 
> So in your case, you made multiple arrays with those drives, and then
> large data moves between arrays caused crashes, and it turned out to
> be the drives fault ?  I would think the problem you describe would
> manifest itself locally to a single array ...

Thats correct. Changing the driver to always use high bit addressing
if supported fixed the issue.


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