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Subject: moving slots with a 3ware raid controller ... danger ?
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I am running a 3ware 9650SE-16ML on FreeBSD
6.1-RELEASE.

I think that the card is in a 4x PCI-E slot, and I
think that is causing my system to crash periodically
under very high IO load.

I am planning on moving the card from the 4X slot to
an 8x slot, which is the speed recommended for it.

Before I do this, I would like a sanity check - is
there ANY reason that moving slots with this card
would be dangerous ?  Will FreeBSD care that the card
comes in on a new slot ?  Will the card ?  The arrays
?

Is there anything at all I should know about this
proposed slot move that would put my filesystems in
danger in any way ?  War stories and speculation
appreciated...

Thanks.


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