Recent content by sadsfae

Hey Folks, As an update, I had no problems with the Addonics ADSA3GPX1-2E (SiL Based). It cost me around $30 from Amazon. http://www.amazon.com/ADSA3GPX1-2E-Raid-2CH-Esata-Pcie/dp/B000UUN70A/ The SIL 3132 chipset based cards are the only ones that worked for me. My setup is now working 100%...

I've got the ADSA3GPX1-2E Raid 5 2CH Esata II Pcie in place. My drive order changed (sda is no longer my OS drive, it's now sdf) My raid drives are now sda/sdb/sdc/sdd/sde and I'm recovering the raid. I tried setting my mobo SATA chipset to AHCI but it would only boot if the external 8-bay...

You can find quite a few based on Marvell 9123, 9128 etc chipsets. I've had terrible luck with the Marvell 9123 and drives dissapearing after some random reads/writes (I'm using RHEL6). I just bought the card you're talking about I think...

Apologies for duplication of info above. Unfortunately I spoke too soon, after about 20minutes of running the rr62x module I started seeing hpt resets and FIS calls were unable to go through. The same behaviour occurred - drives were booted out of the controller one at a time and were no...

I think the issue I was having is from using a buggy marvel chipset avoid marvel 88SE9123 if you're doing a 6-8 drive setup using an external SATA bay (sansdigital). This was exactly my issue...

I think I might have fixed this issue by just swapping the cards. I'm currently recovering the raid (purposely failed a drive to fully test the superblock thing from earlier). This was a Marvel chipset that will randomly offline disks, looking at forum posts and behavior. avoid marvel...

Ok, as an update, I think I'm having multiple issues. The resync finished but something else made all the drives fail out of the array. Also, I seem to have a mystery "md127" device appear occasionally and usurp my /dev/sdc. I also feel like NCQ being enabled might be an issue as I'm using...

Thanks for the helpful post. I believe I am in the same issue with my new XFS mdadm raid6. The /dev devices have changed in my system and It looks like the superblocks are incorrect on the disks. My hunch is that because I had my old array and new array hooked up in the same box when I built...