Post #299,267
11/9/08 1:50:38 PM
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not familiar with the card, was it a hardware raid?
Yes, Virginia, there really is an Obama Claus. You can hear him shouting, "On Pelosi, on Reid, on Kennedy, on Biden. Cash away, cash away, cash away all!"
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Post #299,275
11/9/08 2:15:36 PM
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Yes.
Pain in the ass, too. The drivers caused kernel faults, and both times we lost a drive the mirror got trashed.
Regards, -scott <i>Welcome to Rivendell, Mr. Anderson.</i>
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Post #299,279
11/9/08 3:17:33 PM
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that may be why the xfs tools cant find a superblock
what was the name of the card again? I can do some poking around
Yes, Virginia, there really is an Obama Claus. You can hear him shouting, "On Pelosi, on Reid, on Kennedy, on Biden. Cash away, cash away, cash away all!"
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Post #299,280
11/9/08 3:32:23 PM
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Re: that may be why the xfs tools cant find a superblock
Believe it's a 3ware 9550, or something like that. I need to boot the machine to find out, but I'm trying to do that as infrequently as possible.
Regards, -scott <i>Welcome to Rivendell, Mr. Anderson.</i>
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Post #299,281
11/9/08 3:34:23 PM
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thats fine, I can start there. (out of curiousity)
is adaptec out of fashion? I suppose greg or andrew could answer that for me.
Lately I need to get re-familiarized with intel based systems
thanx,
bill
Yes, Virginia, there really is an Obama Claus. You can hear him shouting, "On Pelosi, on Reid, on Kennedy, on Biden. Cash away, cash away, cash away all!"
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Post #299,287
11/9/08 5:09:35 PM
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I ordered and installed the 9550.
The 9550 was the only card available at the time that worked with the motherboard, that didn't cost $5K and was SATA. (Yes other boards were available, but the PCI spec on the Motherboard forced the choice... as it was currently not supporting certain types of cards)
The Card's firmware needs to be updated seriously.
The kernel Scott *WAS* running was Sarge's, Right? (2.6.8)
There have been some firmware updates that have addressed many issues since I bought the card.
As far as using Adaptec cards... FEH.
I have *MORE PROBLEMS*, in both slowness and data consistency with SCSI and SATA via Adaptec RAID cards than the 3Ware Cards.
Adaptec Firmware updates for "Adaptec brand" cards only, if you have an "OEM" card you have to get them from your OEM which drops your version 6 months after you buy the damn thing.
I've only had *ANY REALLY GOOD LUCK* lately (4-5 years) with MegaRAID series of stuff... and I am still skeptical as they used to Sucksoplenty back when Dual Athlon MP processors were the rage... what 7-8 years ago?
The only server class stuff I REALLY still trust at all is the IBM ServeRAID stuff. Bucksoplenty for them.
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Post #299,291
11/9/08 5:19:09 PM
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funny inside my ibm 3550's is all adaptec, why I asked
Yes, Virginia, there really is an Obama Claus. You can hear him shouting, "On Pelosi, on Reid, on Kennedy, on Biden. Cash away, cash away, cash away all!"
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