Date: Thu, 03 Jan 2008 09:13:12 -0700 From: Scott Long <scottl@samsco.org> To: Gore Jarold <gore_jarold@yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: moving slots with a 3ware raid controller ... danger ? Message-ID: <477D0998.9050407@samsco.org> In-Reply-To: <370651.79772.qm@web63012.mail.re1.yahoo.com> References: <370651.79772.qm@web63012.mail.re1.yahoo.com>
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Gore Jarold wrote: > 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. Can't help ya if you don't say what the crash is. > > I am planning on moving the card from the 4X slot to > an 8x slot, which is the speed recommended for it. If this is what 3ware actually recommends, I'd find it highly amusing, not mention highly unlikely that they have a controller that can actually push more that 1GB/sec of disk bandwidth, even if it had 16 disks hooked up to 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 ? No > Will the card ? I'd certainly hope not. > The arrays? I'd personally ask my my money back from 3ware if they did. Scott
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