need help troubleshooting software raid failures

[Stephen]

Ill have to agree, for some reason if you use a promise card in linux
with software raid weird things happen... as single drives they are
ok, not sure whats going on, but it appears that promise has done this
before.

On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 9:23 AM, Alex Dean<alex at crackpot.org> wrote:
>
> On Jul 16, 2009, at 11:08 AM, Eric Shubert wrote:
>
>> I'd look into the controller. The Promise PCI SATA cards are known to be
>> problematic with linux. I don't know the details, but have seen 2 of
>> them have problems with software raid at least. The problem can be very
>> sporadic, so it seems to fit your symptoms. Google for the details.
>>
>> Please let me know if/when you find a PCI/SATA card that works!
>
> I followed the emails about problems with Promise controllers a few months
> ago.  I'd planned to buy a Promise card up to that point, but went with a
> SYBA card w/ a SIL3112 chipset, since it seemed to be better supported /
> less buggy in linux.
>
> This is the one I have:
> http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16815124006
>
> alex
>
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