Has anyone had success with any SATAII sata_promise card doing large
amounts of I/O to multiple drives attached to a controller? If can
resync ~20 GB arrays with relatively low risk, but if trying to
sustain a resync/restore over 200 GB or so, I rarely complete,
especially if booted and doing typical multi-user stuff. During
normal operation of a synced raid-5 array, the controller hoses up
every few days in the same manner by simple matter of probablity I
suppose.
Is there anything I can do to help get this fixed? Or is the solution
possibly elsewhere? Is there libata work done recently for SATAII in
general?
On 7/19/05, Jarrod Johnson <jarrod.b.johnson@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I have a Soltek planar with this controller providing two ports.
>
> As I try to use those ports together with two non-pdc attached sata
> drives for software raid, the devices hanging off of the PDC
> controller frequently become unresponive, throwing I/O errors on every
> attempt to read a sector after a timeout.
>
> Don't have the exact error in front of me, but essentially, it gets
> command timeout,
> then every command to the controller seems to give the same, status of
> 0xff busy, but not much more informative output.
>
> The situation seems very similar to Jim Ramsays:
> http://www.opensubscriber.com/message/linux-ide@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/1671725.html
>
> Output seems to line up pretty much exactly, except specific sector
> numbers, of course.
>
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