[KLUG Members] I drank some Nightshade.....

[Bruce Smith]

> How can three different SCSI controllers not work on this board? 

IANAHG (I am not a hardware guy) BUT . . . .

(This has the credibility of the all posts on slashdot that start with
"IANAL, but" - and then proceed to give legal advice)

Meanwhile back at the ranch . . .  BUT, I once had a similar problem -
kinda.  Well, it was a different RAID controller, and a different pair
of motherboards, and a different CPU manufacturer (AMD), but I did have
the same problem - kinda!   :-)

Back when I was building my workstation at home, I put a 3ware
controller in a cheap motherboard and I kept getting errors.  The errors
were worse than yours.  Linux appeared to work fine, but files kept
getting corrupted without even a single error in any log file.  I could
run "rpm -V `rpm -qa`" multiple times and get different files reported
corrupted every time!

I tried flashing BIOS in the motherboard AND in the RAID controller. 
Plus a ton of research and other talking with 3ware tech support. 
I finally "solved" the problem by switching to a different, more
expensive motherboard (ASUS), and everything works GREAT now.  See: 

 pc1h:/home/bruce$ uptime
  8:19pm  up 83 days, 21 min, 14 users,  load average: 0.03, 0.04, 0.00

Some people speculated it was the BIOS manufacturer, others speculated
it was an IRQ sharing problem.  I may never know, but I don't really
care because it's solved.  The point is, it can happen.

See, wasn't this post useless?   Other than to make you feel better
because misery loves company!   :-)

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Bruce Smith                bruce@armintl.com
System Administrator / Network Administrator
Armstrong International, Inc.
Three Rivers, Michigan  49093  USA
http://www.armstrong-intl.com/
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