Bigbro's foray into the scary world of blogging
I've given in trying to work around the fundamental brokenness of iTE's shonky chipset (Specifically their IT8212 chipset) and have managed to source and install a Promise IDE controller. So far, neutron (my fileserver) has come up and found all the disks for the RAID sets. (With the IT8212 based card, the RAID1 set would only come up with the disks on the motherboard controller and I would have to manually reassemble the array afterwards to put the rest of the disks in - not a big issue, but something of an inconvenience.)
I'm currently running an fsck against the TB RAID5 volume, due to the ITE chipset writing arse to the disks. Hopefully, this is the end of my instability problems with neutron and she'll go back to being the faithful, reliable workhorse she's been before I sullied her PCI bus with the spawn of some crazed loon in the employ of Integrated Technology Express. Express route to pain and suffering more like... I'd like to let some Chuck Norris pain and suffering be integrated into people who release this crud onto the market.
posted at: 11:07 | path: /technical | permanent link to this entry
