Date: Sun, 5 Mar 2006 12:39:41 -0700 From: Ken Gunderson <kgunders@teamcool.net> To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: major pita w/LSI Tyan TA26 combo Message-ID: <20060305123941.4a890a73.kgunders@teamcool.net> In-Reply-To: <E8B9BFA8-AEF9-4820-8817-523ACAC53B18@khera.org> References: <20060303133844.451cb4f7.kgunders@teamcool.net> <200603031343.10334.fcash@ocis.net> <E8B9BFA8-AEF9-4820-8817-523ACAC53B18@khera.org>
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On Sun, 5 Mar 2006 11:48:26 -0500 Vivek Khera <vivek@khera.org> wrote: > > On Mar 3, 2006, at 4:43 PM, Freddie Cash wrote: > > > The official word from LSI Support is: they do not support any RAID > > controllers connected to riser cards, no matter what the OS. Go > > that via > > e-mail from one of their support techs and one of their RAID > > engineers. > > > > > > Interesting... They never said that to me. I have an issue with an > external Dell Powervault array that always reports failure of > whatever is in position 0 once the array is active. It will format > it, etc. without failure. If I swap the channels on the 320-2X card, > the error stays with position 0 on the array. If I drop the channel > down to U160 from U320, no errors. This leads me to believe that the > backplane of the array box is not up to spec for U320. > FWIW-- I have tried manually dropping speed to U160 to no avail. And.. my original issues that I opened w/LSI and Tyan was w/, you guessed it, position 0. Of course Tyan reports that I'm the only one reporting such problems... > The funny thing is that and Adaptec 2230SLP card has no issues with > the array whatsoever. I've not had problems with LSI cards on risers > before. >From myunderstanding from talking to LSI support Adaptec cards will automatically drop to U160 if they can't keep up w/U320?? -- Best regards, Ken Gunderson Q: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. A: Why is putting a reply at the top of the message frowned upon?
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