From owner-freebsd-hardware Thu Aug 23 15:18:29 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from krell.webweaver.net (krell.webweaver.net [64.124.90.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B9DFC37B407 for ; Thu, 23 Aug 2001 15:18:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nicole@unixgirl.com) Received: from xwin.nmhtech.com (xwin.daemontech.net [208.135.51.161]) by krell.webweaver.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6F17320F04; Thu, 23 Aug 2001 15:18:14 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <200108232108.OAA06408@mina.soco.agilent.com> Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2001 15:18:14 -0700 (PDT) From: Hodge Podge To: Darryl Okahata Subject: Re: 3ware stuff not ready for heavy duty useage-Ah ha Cc: Michael VanLoon , freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org, Marc Rassbach , Lawrence Farr Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On 23-Aug-01 Darryl Okahata wrote: > Hodge Podge > >> Who knows.. maybe that was enough to woogle the power supply, maybe its a >> Vi >> a >> Chipset interaction problem... The bugger is what to do abt it? > > Oh, jeez. Aaron's hit upon a definite possibility. Check out your > motherboards ASAP: motherboards using the VIA KT133A/KT133 chipset with > the VIA 686B Southbridge can get data corruption problems with high PCI > traffic (I *think* this can affect 3ware cards, but I'm not 100% sure). > For more info, see: > Well Yea.. Thst fits us to a tee.. LOTS of data passing through the PCI buss. But I'm not sure how that would effect the rebuilding problems we had or why it would cause the card to think there is a drive problem. But its something to try. Several others privately have said that they have seen lots of failures in drives and or cards within abt 72 Hrs of testing or burn-in. After that however they seemed to work without much incident. So.. Thats fits us too. And now we want another shrubbery..... Nicole > http://www.au-ja.de/review-kt133a-1-en.html > > -- > Darryl Okahata > darrylo@soco.agilent.com > > DISCLAIMER: this message is the author's personal opinion and does not > constitute the support, opinion, or policy of Agilent Technologies, or > of the little green men that have been following him all day. > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message ******* |\ __ /| (`\ ******* * * | o_o |__ ) ) * * * * // \\ * * * Nicole Harrington | AKA Hodge Podge * ----------------------(((---(((-------------------------------- nicole@unixgirl.com http://www.unixgirl.com/ webmistress@dangermouse.org http://www.dangermouse.org/ nicole@deviantimages.com http://www.deviantimages.com/ -- Powered By Coca-Cola and FreeBSD -- "The world is run by those who show up" -- The Best Place for Your Web Site - www.WebWeaver.net -- ---------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message