On Sun, 26 Aug 2001, Federico Sevilla III wrote:
> On Fri, 24 Aug 2001 at 23:36, Seth Mos wrote:
> > I have not seen any reports yet about the 3ware card in a UNI
> > proccesor with the software watchdog.
>
> If by "software watchdog" you mean APIC and NMI Watchdog for uniprocessor
> support enabled in the kernel, then I'm one who has these two enabled. I
> use a 3ware 6400 with RAID5. Until kernel 2.4.9 I noticed that a drive
> going down would halt my system. With 2.4.9 I tried removing one (I have
> removable bays) and then rebuilt it, all without having to freeze,
> shutdown or whatever. Great, eh, for IDE? I haven't experienced a real
> hard drive failure since I used 2.4.9, though, as I did before which
> caused the hardware lockups. I don't know if pulling out the drive is a
> good enough simulation. :)
In that case I am going to add a note to the FAQ that it might be
dangerous because the 3ware cards and 1.0 and 1.0.1 will probably not like
each other if you switch it on. I will add a note that 2.4.9 and latter
might work better then it does with the older kernel.
Cheers
Seth
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