Re: SATA vs SCSI

"Rob Nicholson" <rob.nicholson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:dr806l$icf$2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Someone at Silicon Image must be a member of the Radical Right who went
> > overboard on the morality stuff--their hardware doesn't play with itself,
> > at least their early SATA chips didn't. Try a RAID controller with a
> > different chip and I suspect that it will work fine--watch out for Raidcore
> > boards though--the Tiger 2875 has a specific problem with them that re-
> > quired a couple of tries before they fixed it in the BIOS. Before you do
> > that though, make make sure that both the add-in board and the motherboard
> > are running the same revision of the Silicon Image firmware, even if you
> > have to backrev one of them to get there.
>
> Good idea. Adaptec have the 1210SA for around £40 which might fit the bill.

Good choice, Nicholson. Not a Silicon Image controller in sight on that card.

Or is there? Oh look:
http://www.adaptec.com/worldwide/support/popupimage.jsp?sess=no&language=English+US&imageGif=1210SA_board.jpg&imageHeight=440&imageWidth=600

>
> > Your mention of the Adaptec host adapter packing up suggests that it might
> > be an interrupt problem--no matter how much Microsoft and Intel hype the
> > notion that Plug and Pray works and that PCI can share interrupts, in the
> > real world it _still_ doesn't work cleanly and I wish those twits would
> > get over themselves and put manual overrides in the default installation
> > instead of requiring that you reinstall the OS with a non-default HAL in
> > order to turn them on. Might be worth a try at musical boards to see if
> > there's an arrangement that makes it happy.
>
> You could well be right as we suspect something very weird going on with the
> cards. I told IT to bite the bullet and buy a replacement Adapatec SCSI
> adapter (we could do with one as a spare anyway) and it arrived. Plugged in
> the tape drive worked fine. Plugged in the existing SATA RAID and it hung on
> boot up. After a considerable time unplugging, plugging and moving around
> the server is back up and running. But as far as we can tell, we didn't
> actually *do* anything except maybe change the order.

And chanded PCI interrupts by doing that.

>
> Cheers, Rob.

.

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