[mythtv-users] OT -- Raid Card
Michael Heironimus
mkh01 at earthlink.net
Thu Aug 13 02:10:09 UTC 2009
On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 04:50:39PM -0700, Doug Young wrote:
> Sorry for being off topic here, as this doesn't pertain to my myth
> box, but I know there's a lot of raid knowledge here, so I'm hoping
> someone has some experience...
>
> I have a friend who is experiencing data loss on his FreeBSD
> fileserver using an intel SRCU42X card. It appears this is an LSI
> MegaRaid card rebranded Intel, as it uses the amr driver in FreeBSD,
> not the iir. He's looking for a drop in replacement. Other than
> buying that exact card again, does anyone have experience with what
> might be compatible?
Depends on why he's seeing data loss. If it's because the card is
failing, ebay is likely to have the same model for cheap and he won't
get much more "drop in" than that. If it's because the driver isn't
quite right, he's probably out of luck. I think MegaRAID controllers are
compatible as long as you stay reasonably close to the same family, but
if it's a driver-related problem the same family may have a high risk of
the same problems.
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Michael Heironimus
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