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Subject: Re: Promise PDC20269 (Ultra133 TX2) + Software RAID
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On Tue, Feb 03, 2004 at 04:42:15PM +1030, Ryan Verner wrote:
> On 03/02/2004, at 2:08 PM, Ryan Verner wrote:
> >And the machine is randomly locking up, and of course, on reboot, the 
> >raid array is rebuilt.  Ouch.  Any clues as to why?  I'm sure the hard 
> >drive hasn't failed as it's brand new; I suspect a chipset 
> >compatibility problem or something.
> 
> Definitely seems to be this.  Swapped the drives back over to the 
> onboard-IDE chipset, which is much slower (raid rebuilds at only 
> 7MB/sec instead of 25), but certainly none of these problems.
> 
> Known issue?
> 

I'm running Ultra-133 TX2 with software RAID successfully without any
problems. This is on (mainly) Intel P3 platforms.

-- Pasi Kärkkäinen
       
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