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On Thu, May 28, 2015 10:46 am, Kirk Bocek wrote: > > > On 5/26/2015 11:07 AM, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote: >> Push came to shove - these things gag on a drive > 2TB. > > I ran into this a couple of years ago with some older 3Ware cards. A > firmware update fixed it. > With 3ware cards depending on card model: 1. the card supports drives > 2TB 2. the card as

On Thu, May 28, 2015 11:12 am, Kirk Bocek wrote: > > > On 5/28/2015 9:03 AM, Valeri Galtsev wrote: >> On Thu, May 28, 2015 10:46 am, Kirk Bocek wrote: >>> On 5/26/2015 11:07 AM, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote: >>>> Push came to shove - these things gag on a drive > 2TB. >>> I ran into this a couple of years ago with some older 3Ware cards. A firmware

hw wrote: > Richard Zimmerman wrote: >> DO NOT buy the newer HPE DL20 gen9 or ML10 gen9 servers then (especially >> if using CentOS 6.x) > > What would you suggest as alternative, something from Dell? Yep, Dell's are good. And I do *not* want to buy from HP, because their support is nothing like good. And once you run out the warranty, they don't want to even let you

Now that I've been enlightened to the terrible write performance of ext3 on my new 3Ware RAID 5 array, I'm stuck choosing an alternative filesystem. I benchmarked XFS, JFS, ReiserFS and ext3 and they came back in that order from best to worst performer. I'm leaning towards XFS because of performance and because centosplus makes kernel modules available for the stock kernel.

Dear all, actually I installed CentOS 5.4 x86_64 on 11 new Dell R710 servers. It is required to use 5.4 to be covered by the NetApp Interoperability Matrix for use of Snapdrive. All systems spit out the error message mpt2sas0: failure at drivers/scsi/mpt2sas/mpt2sas_scsih.c:4637/_scsih_add_device()! at boot time. In dmesg the complete SCSI initialization logging appears as follows: SCSI

On 5/28/2015 9:03 AM, Valeri Galtsev wrote: > On Thu, May 28, 2015 10:46 am, Kirk Bocek wrote: >> >> On 5/26/2015 11:07 AM, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote: >>> Push came to shove - these things gag on a drive > 2TB. >> I ran into this a couple of years ago with some older 3Ware cards. A >> firmware update fixed it. >> > With 3ware cards depending on card

I have two identical servers. The only difference is that the first one has Maxtor 250G drives and the second one has Seagate 320G drives. OS: CentOS-4.4 (fully patched) CPU: dual Opteron 280 Memory: 16GB Raid card: 3ware 9550Sx-8LP Raid volume: 4-disk Raid 5 with NCQ and Write Cache enabled On the first server I have decent performance. Nothing spectacular, but good enough. The second one

I have two identical servers. The only difference is that the first one has Maxtor 250G drives and the second one has Seagate 320G drives. OS: CentOS-4.4 (fully patched) CPU: dual Opteron 280 Memory: 16GB Raid card: 3ware 9550Sx-8LP Raid volume: 4-disk Raid 5 with NCQ and Write Cache enabled On the first server I have decent performance. Nothing spectacular, but good enough. The second one

I know there are a few 3Ware fans here and I was hoping to find some help. I just built a new server using a 3Ware 9550SX-4LP with four disks in raid 5. The array is fully initialized but I'm not getting the write performance I was hoping for -- only 40 to 45MB/Sec. 3Ware's site advertises 300MB/Sec writes using 8 disks on the PCI Express version of this card (the 9580 I think.)

I've been planning to build a dual Opteron server for awhile. I'd like to get people's suggestions on a suitable motherboard. I've looked at the Tyan K8SE (S2892) and K8SRE (S2891) but would like to find more Linux-specific experiences with these boards. Some features I expect are at least 4 SATA (SATA-300?) ports, serial console support in the BIOS, USB 2.0 and IEEE-1394

I had my eye on the Tyan dual-Opteron mobos for awhile. I tried to find a posting *anywhere* sharing experiences with these boards under Linux. No such luck. So placing myself under the heading "Where Angles Fear to Tread," I went ahead and built a system anyway. Here's what I've learned. The specs: Tyan Thunder K8SE S2892, BIOS 1.01 2x Opteron 270, 2Ghz Dual-Core, retail

Hi I am attempting to setup Xen 4.10 with kernel 4.9.86-30 ( virt7-xen-410-testing, virt7-common-testing ) on CentOS7 After installing everything, the machine was unable to boot and hung in dracut stating it could not find its root device. The testsystem I use is a somewhat aged Dell M915 Blade (Quad opteron 61xx), using an MPT SAS controller for it's SAS boot drives. Stock CentOS 7

I've got two drives from a now-dead server, they were RAIDed, a mirror, I'd assume. I need to see if there's anything on them I need to transfer to the replacement, so I just shoved them into another Dell server, with a PERC 5 controller - I think that's what the dead one had. I fired up MegaRAID storage manager... but can't see any way to tell it to recreate that RAID. Anyone

On 05/28/2015 09:12 AM, Kirk Bocek wrote: > I suggest everyone stay away from 3Ware from now on. My experience has been that 3ware cards are less reliable that software RAID for a long, long time. It took me a while to convince my previous employer to stop using them. Inability to migrate disk sets across controller families, data corruption, and boot failures due to bad battery daughter

greetings, the subject says it all right? ;-> naw...... is the 3ware Escalade 9500S series mature enough yet for CentOS? - rh -- Robert Hanson Abba Communications http://www.abbacomm.net

Howdy, I hit a snag trying to install Xen4CentOS on a Supermicro based system (X9DRD-7LN4F with the Broadcom/LSI 2308 chipset). I spent a few hours on this today, I'm posting this here in case it helps anyone else and saves them the frustration I dealt with. On this system I did a fresh install of CentOS 7, updated it, rebooted it, then installed Xen. The system was booting fine using the

Hi i am using CentOS 4.4 version individually. working very fine. but, when i try to install CentOS4.4 as a dual boot with windows XP, i couldn't install. its taking so much of time to show the installation screen. i have given my hardware configuration below, Intel Dual Core 2.8 Ghz Intel D945GCCR MotherBoard 1GB DDR Ram 80GB SATA HDD (western digital) this is the first time i am trying

I'd like to add a page for the Realtek r1000 NIC driver for the RTL8110SC (and others) chipset. This driver is not included in the kernel. I've previously posted to the general mail list: http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/2007-February/075383.html I'm guessing this would go in the HardwareList section. Otherwise a page titled 'Realtek r1000 Driver' would work. my

On May 24, 2015 4:46:18 PM PDT, Jonathan Billings <billings at negate.org> wrote: >> On May 24, 2015, at 18:24, Kirk Bocek <t004 at kbocek.com> wrote: >> >> So: >> >> $rpm -e --nodeps chrony > >No. Bad. > Okay, okay! I'll go on the paper. I'll reinstall chrony. But there *are* places I've needed to use nodeps. Mostly to manage

I'm starting a project to build a MythTV box for my living room. Anyone else currently working with MythTV on CentOS 4? Here are some of the gotcha's I've worked through so far: - I was originally planning on using KnoppMyth. But their CD appears to be only for i386. Without realizing it, the P4 CPU I picked is one of the newer ones with the x86_64 extensions. It won't boot