Robert,
On Wed, Nov 10, 1999 at 10:20:50PM -0600, Robert A. Hayden wrote:
> I have two servers coming which use Abit BP6 motherboards. On this board
> are two ATA-33 chains and two ATA-66 chains and I'm curious as to anyone's
> experience both with this board in general and in getting the ATA-66 stuff
> to work properly under RH 6.x.
I've got a production server built with the Abit BP6, running Redhat
6, and I've got a buddy with a BP6 based system at home. Neither one
of us has had success in getting the HPT-366 controller used by the
BP6 to function reliably. The current drivers, which are available as a patch
for Linux 2.2.x, or included in 2.3.x, just are not quite far enough
along yet.
Most of my testing, prior to putting this server in production back in
late July, indicated that I could only boot reliably from the UDMA-33
controllers. If I did so, I could access data on *ONE* drive on the
UDMA-66 controllers. However, when I tried using multiple drives on
the UDMA-66 controller (my goal was to do software RAID-1) Linux would
lockup hard, at random points during operation - usually during
system boot.
My buddy put his BP6 system together last month, and experiences the
same thing, using the latest 2.3.xx kernel and HPT-366 drivers at that
time.
I think the HPT-366 will be usable maybe a few months down the road -
but for the moment, I can only recommend using the primary UDMA-33
controller(s). I am running software RAID-1 on hda and hdc (two IBM
18GB 7200 RPM drives), and getting excellent performance. I expect
within a year to be adding two more drives - and hopefully the HPT-366
will be better supported by then. If not, I guess I will be spending
a little more on SCSI drives (I've got Ultra-SCSI already for my
12/24GB DDS3 tape drive and SCSI CD-ROM).
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