Date: Mon, 6 Mar 2006 08:07:31 -0800 From: Freddie Cash <fcash@ocis.net> To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: major pita w/LSI Tyan TA26 combo Message-ID: <200603060807.32455.fcash@ocis.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 Sunday 05 March 2006 08:48 am, Vivek Khera 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. Is that connected to a riser card that is connected to the motherboard? We only have problems when the MegaRAID card is plugged into a riser card. When it's plugged directly into the motherboard, it runs perfectly. -- Freddie Cash fcash@ocis.net
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