On Mon, Dec 09, 2002 at 01:49:06PM -0800, nate wrote: > Pigeon said: > > > Right, I've heard lots of people moaning about the RAID version. OK, > > thanks. > > > > When you say 'buggy', do you mean losing data at all? I've never had > > anything like that, it's just not very quick. > > > It's been 3 years, so my experiences are not up to date :) but when > I had problems(it was on a new Asus CUV4X at the time) it involved the > disk operating in PIO mode and load average jumping to 10 for many small > tasks running, making the system unusuable. I was able to "force" the disk > to DMA mode but a little while later(random time elapse, usually a few hours), > there would be a bunch of DMA errors and the kernel would revert to PIO > mode again. > > I wouldn't care so much, disk speed isn't that important to me, but when > the load jumps to 8-10+ it becomes a problem! I mean it could take 30 > seconds to run 'top' before I got any results back > > as far as I remember I never had any data loss, nor crashes or anything > just obscene load averages, and the inability to reliably put the drive > in DMA mode. Using the promise controller immediately fixed it. And i've > been using that controller in several systems ever since. I read a bunch > of other reports at the time about problems with VIA chipsets(my older > VIA MVP3 based K6-3 works wonderfully in DMA mode) so I knew it wasn't > just me.
Ah, no, I've never had anything like that happen. It stays in DMA mode, it's just slow. I haven't noticed any errors apart from the abovementioned "invalidate: buffer busy" from hdparm. On the other hand, I guess from your posts that your systems are far more heavily used than mine. 3 years is roughly the age of my ECS MB. I've heard of VIA chipset problems - AFTER I got the MB! - but got the impression that my 82C596B was one of the trouble-free variants. Maybe "trouble-free VIA chipset" is one of those phrases like "working Windoze program". Pigeon -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
