SATA cards with lots of ports?

[Emmanuel Dreyfus <manu%netbsd.org@localhost>]

On Fri, 6 Jun 2008 22:33:40 +0200, Manuel Bouyer  wrote:

> that's strange. I have 2 boxes with 3ware 9550SX-8 and they're very
> stable (under NetBSD 3.1.x). I can't see why the SX-12 would be different.
> What kind of issues are you seeing ?

When using them to get hardware RAID 1, some blocks of data zero'ed within 
files.

Then I started using them ith RAIDframe, to get softwaare RAID 1. The 
machine regulary panics in uvm_fault. It cannot run more than 2 weeks 
without crashing. And disk syncs after the crash always result in a
freezes that require power-cycling the machine.

Tired with NetBSD-4.0, NetBSD-current, and with a SATA card firmmware
update. 

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Emmanuel Dreyfus
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