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On 4/19/07, Jerry McBride <mcbrides9@×××××××.net> wrote: |
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> Hey Chris.... |
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> Would you take the time and post what motherboard the Supermicro is plugged |
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> into and whether you are running 32bit or 64bit Gentoo? |
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> Thank you, in advance. |
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> Jerry McBride |
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> gentoo-user@g.o mailing list |
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Sure thing. :) |
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Mobo: Asus P4S800-MX |
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1x Supermicro AOC-SAT2-MV8 (replaced 2x Promise SATA300TX4) |
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1x Promise SATA300TX4 |
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The Supermicro is hooked into just a normal PCI slot, not PCI-X. I'm |
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sure there is a performance hit but I can't notice it if there is. |
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The 8 drives hooked to it are hooked via 2 multilane cables to an |
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external enclosure. The Promise is driving 4 drives in the server |
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itself. This is the cable kit I bought 2 of: |
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http://www.cooldrives.com/multilane-adapter-kit.html |
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Gentoo is installed on a small 20g drive (hda). |
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I'm running a 32bit Gentoo. I upgraded from 2.6.17-r8 to 2.6.19-r5. |
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The reason was .19 had the Marvel SATA driver in it. mv_sata or |
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sata_mv, I can't remember offhand the right way to type it. I just |
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compiled (with genkernel) the Marvel driver into the kernel, and |
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booted up the box with the Supermicro installed and my Raid5 array on |
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those 8 disks was back up with no issue. I originally built the |
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server with the 3 Promise cards in there. when I found out about the |
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Supermicro card, I looked in my config for .17 and did off hand see a |
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Marvel driver but it was in the .19 one so I upgraded. |
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This frees up a PCI slot so I can put in a gigabit nic since the built |
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on nic is only 10/100. :) |
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I know of others that are running uber raid servers with multiple of |
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those Supermicro cards installed in a system. I know of at least 1 |
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person on some boards I peruse that is running with 30 drives w/ 4 of |
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them in a box. But I don't think he's running Gentoo. :( |
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Promise as a PCI-X card as well but it won't work in a normal PCI slot |
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like the Supermicro one will. Plus the Promise card is more |
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expensive. |
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# lspci |
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<snip> |
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00:09.0 Mass storage controller: Promise Technology, Inc. PDC40718 |
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(SATA 300 TX4) (rev 02) |
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00:0a.0 SCSI storage controller: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. |
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MV88SX6081 8-port SATA II PCI-X Controller (rev 09) |
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Hope this helps. |
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