On Tue, Oct 09, 2001 at 05:01:50PM -0600, Dylan Griffiths wrote:
...
> Hi. I have an HPT 370 in a box here. It has 2 Quantum drives connectod to
> it (one master per channel) that are in a RAID 5 set with two more
> Quantums on the VIA onboard IDE controller. When I run an md5sum of a
> group of files vs. the precomputed md5sums, sometimes they don't match in
> different spots.
>
> After googling around the web, I found a similar report with the HPT 366
> controller and software RAID:
> http://www.linux-consulting.com/Raid/Docs/raid_highload.tst.txt
>
> In there, the fellow found that reading from a drive connected to the HPT
> 366 controller would have different results depending on load.
I can't say what the current status is. But some time ago some people I know
got burnt with silent corruption from using HPT cards with RAID5 and RAID0, the
cards were replaced with Promise cards, and the problem went away (as it should
- I've been running a lot of RAID on Promise cards and never saw the problem).
As long as there are Promise cards to get, I'm not going anywhere near HPT.
Maybe there's a fix somewhere, maybe there's a magic BIOS setting or upgrade,
maybe something else can make it work, I don't know. Promise cards are cheap
so I don't care.
Sorry for not being able to give you "good" information, but at least now you
got "some" information. Hope it helps, for what it's worth.
Cheers,
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