[KLUG Members] IBM ServeRAID problems

[Adam Tauno Williams]

>Well ... it looks like my problems are solved!  At least I am able to
>make backups to my DAT drive now without any problems, and I have yet to
>see any hangs.  Also, as a side benefit, the I/O on the box is
>significantly faster, too. 

And nothing beats fast I/O!  It is definitely listed in the
Pursuit-Of-Happiness-HOWTO.

Now you should consider returning balance to the KLUG cosmos by selecting a
topic to present at a meeting. :)

>Thanks again, Adam
>>Well, what do you know?  It turns out one of the PCI slots on my
>>motherboard (SuperMicro P6SBU) is an Adaptec RAIDport, meaning you can
>>get a special PCI adapter from Adaptec to upgrade the onboard SCSI (PCI)
>>to RAID.  Guess which slot my ServeRAID card was on?  Yep, the RAIDport
>>slot.  So I moved the ServeRAID card and now I have different IRQs for
>>aic7xxx and ips drivers.  We'll see if this works; stress test is in
>>progress as I write.  All in all, I think the prognosis is good.  Adam,
>>thanks.  You always seem to be one I can count on for an answer when all
>>other avenues have dried up.

Personally, I'd prefer it if someone else got to experience all these problems
first.  

But since the light of divine wisdom had to settle upon someone, it was as
likely to be me as the next guy.