Re: mvsas with 3.1 (mdraid+xfs locked up, single drive w/xfs notlocked up)

[Brad Campbell]

On 17/01/12 11:00, Thomas Fjellstrom wrote:
> Here's something interesting though, I just tried writing to the one disk on
> the card that isn't part of the mdraid raid5 volume. It is fine. I can read
> from it and write to it. So something to do with mdraid, or the XFS filesystem
> (or both) is causing a bad interaction with the card itself.

Try doing IO to multiple drives simultaneously. I had a SIL card that would corrupt data when used 
in RAID, but not single drive IO tests. I could make it fail by doing multiple dd/cp/md5sum to two 
drives simultaneously.

Do yourself a favour. Whack it on fleabay and sell it to a Windows user, then get something 
supported. Leave enough scatter around that people thinking of buying a card with that Marvell 
chipset will stay clear.

Regards,
Brad
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