Re: FC4 x86_64 dies with heavy SATA RAID load - SOLVED

[Mark Miksis <mark nospamplease miksis com>]

Peter Arremann wrote:
> On Thursday 30 June 2005 21:35, Mark Miksis wrote:
> 
>>I've been running the 3Ware card with the write cache turned off because
>>I was nervous about not having any battery backup on the card itself.
>>Turning the cache on seems to have completely solved my problem!  I've
>>been running heavy traffic (both reads and writes) for the last few
>>hours and it's been rock solid and very fast.  I guess I learned
>>something today.  I'm still not sure I'm comfortable running in this
>>configuration, but I do have a UPS on the box.
> 
> Very interesting - what sodimm are you using? Maybe its simply a defective 
> cache module... ?
> 
I never looked at the sodimm - it's whatever the card came with.  If it
was bad, I'd expect the card to fail with the cache enabled, not the
other way around.
> 
> 
>>BTW, this means my 3Ware card is not available;)
> 
> Oh darn :-) Was wanting one for home to play around with but not willing to 
> spend so much money just for yet another toy... :-D
> 
> Peter.
>