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 Post subject: Six Fresh Samsung Drives
PostPosted: Wed Dec 02, 2009 11:36 pm 
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I am looking into sata RAID cards, delivering 3Gb throughput. I'm puzzled. I have a box with 6 new Samsung 7200 1Tb drives. The D915PGN motherboard has 6 PCI, 2 PCI-E x1, 1 PCI-E x16 (that slot is taken by the video card). It has 2Gb of RAM. My initial plan was to have 4 drives in a RAID 10, with a backup/Rsync of two drives in a RAID 0. But it can be any redundant configuration.

Any suggestions? Any suggestions where to buy?


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PostPosted: Thu Dec 03, 2009 12:43 am 
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First off, loose the video card. It serves no purpose in the NAS box after initial configuration.

Second, the board appears to only have 4 SATA ports. Since these are not hardware RAID that limits their usefulness.

Third, not a one of those drives will even come close to saturating a SATAII interface. Forget about SATAII numbers. Besides, the network interface will only go to 1Gb/sec so who cares.

Fourth, If it were me I would simply setup the drives in a RAID5 array with a hot spare. This would yield you 4TB of storage and good performance while giving you fairly good data security should a drive fail. The second option is to go with a RAID6 capable card which gives you double parity for even more safety. The third option would be two RAID5 arrays that you then Rsync 2TB but good performance

Your big problem is going to be the interface for most of these cards. You will either be looking at a card with a PCI-X interface in a standard PCI slot or a PCIe interface card, most of which are either PCIe 4X or PCIe 8X. The PCI-X cards are going to be your better bet unless you are willing to part with more cash for a motherboard that has a 4X or 8X PCIe slot. The theoretical limit for the standard PCI bus running at 33MHz is about 133MB/sec. Reality as more like around 100MB/sec which will more than meet needs.

A gestamate of what you could expect from a setup like you have with a RAID5 array would be around 70-80MB/sec. sustained reads and around 60-70MB/sec for the writes after you burn the write cache.

For the cards I like the LSI and 3Ware. Adaptec has screwed support any more and I don't pay to talk with tech support just to get an RMA, neither should anyone else!

You will also want to drop in a PCIe 1X Gigabit NIC (Intel chip)

All others should weigh in on this since I am just one opinion and you know what they say about those.

Mike


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PostPosted: Thu Dec 03, 2009 2:13 pm 
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mikeiver1 wrote:
The second option is to go with a RAID6 capable card which gives you double parity for even more safety


It was a strange day. Under the weather, no meetings, no appointments. Headaches & Cappuccino's. Started a hours long search for hardware RAID cards: 3Ware, LSI, AMCC (confusingly all the same company) RocketRAID (don't like the smell of that word) and available legacy products by IBM, Dell, HP/Compaq.

Finally I found a new, but pretty old 3Ware card, Escalade 8506-8, for a bargain price of 75 Eur (today an embarrassing 113.25 USD). And amazingly the company selling it on eBay, was about 5 miles away. Traffic jams turned that 10 minutes drive into 35 minutes. Anyway, when I arrived, I met two very friendly guys, having a warehouse full of server stuff. They showed me the card, and it appeared much longer than a regular PCI slot. We discussed the matter and they came up with other solutions. Several cards were put on the table, and one card seemed very interesting: 3Ware 9690SA-8I. We found out that that card - a PCI-e x8 card - fits in a PCI-e x16 slot, is 8th generation, and delivers a beautiful range of options, including RAID 6. The manager/owner said: 'it's quite a bit more expansive than the 8506-8'. He looked at his eBay records and said that his average price was 235 Eur, and that he would give me the necessary multi-lane cables for free. A bargain. Look at the Amazon prices.

I did not have to pay. 'I'll send you an invoice if the thing works, give me a call'. After that he showed me around in his warehouse, proudly telling me that they wrote their own stock-eBay software, real-time managing prices, sales and stocks and putting items on eBay with one click. I told him about NASLite. Some people are nicer than others.

http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_ss_0_6?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=9690sa&sprefix=9690sa
http://www.3ware.com/products/pdf/LSI_3ware-9690SA_PB_072309.pdf
http://www.3ware.com/products/pdf/3ware_Cable_Brochure.pdf
http://www.7digits.nl/index_uk.php


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PostPosted: Thu Dec 03, 2009 2:32 pm 
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The 8506-8 will work in a 32-bit PCI slot (it's designed for a PCI-X slot). I had both the 8500-12 and the 8506-12 and they worked fine with NASLite-2.

Good luck with the 9690SA-8I!


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PostPosted: Thu Dec 03, 2009 9:15 pm 
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You got a smoking deal there, Do you realize the card you have?

Good on you for that bit of luck!

Mike


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PostPosted: Fri Dec 04, 2009 5:43 am 
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mikeiver1 wrote:
Do you realize the card you have?


I do, I do! :-)

BTW_1: Is there any possibility to run the 3Ware management console - 3DM2 - either on the NASLite box, or on one of the PC's?
BTW_2: How & when does NL report a defective drive in a RAID 6 array? Should I put in a hot spare?


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PostPosted: Fri Dec 04, 2009 6:54 pm 
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PieterB wrote:
BTW_1: Is there any possibility to run the 3Ware management console - 3DM2 - either on the NASLite box, or on one of the PC's?

Not in NL at this time to the best of my knowledge. Some of the big hardware cards do allow remote configuration and monitoring, not sure about your card.

PieterB wrote:
BTW_2: How & when does NL report a defective drive in a RAID 6 array?

Does the card even do RAID6? If the card generates SMART protocol output or passes it through to the OS running under the card then it should be as fast as NL responds. If on the other hand the card does not (I kind of doubt it wouldn't) then the alarm on the card, assuming there is one, would sound to let you know that you are operating in a degraded mode until the rebuild of the lost drive is repopulated. Not sure as I do not have one of the cards.

PieterB wrote:
Should I put in a hot spare?

If you are going to run RAID5 or RAID6 then it might be prudent.

Mike


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PostPosted: Sat Dec 05, 2009 2:01 pm 
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I would like to have a RAID 6 array, with 6 drives (it probably leads to a serious kabalah problem when I would use the intended 5 drives with one spare), so I found this very useful gadget: http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/B0001UZQWG/ref=ox_ya_oh_product. So I'll have a 4Tb RAID 6 Array with great redundancy. When one drive goes, I can rebuild the array, then take out the bad drive, put in a new drive, rebuild the array, take out the spare, and rebuild the array anew.

Does that make sense?


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PostPosted: Sat Dec 05, 2009 2:32 pm 
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I like the idea but the price for the units is way high. I just picked up a used rack mount server case on Ebay with 16 SATAII hot swap drive bays and triple redundant PS for $205.00 Plus shipping.

If you have a hot spare the array controller will automatically rebuild the data on the spare. You will have to do nothing but remove the bad drive and add a new hot spare. You can also select the aggressiveness of the background rebuild with the better controllers. This will allow the array to remain available in degraded mode while also rebuilding the lost member but performance will be less than normal.

The manual will detail all this to you.

Mike


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PostPosted: Sun Dec 06, 2009 3:38 pm 
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Finally: I got the thing going. It works. That means the system very quietly hushes its ventilator words of comfort. The ALT-3 brought up the 3Ware BIOS, and I initiated RAID 6. It took a few hours to finish. No problem. Visited a friend, had dinner.

But now, but now! I opened the NL Administration Utility, and went to option 3. There I can see that the logical disk, my RAID 6 Array, is recognized by NL:

0 - Disk-0, DEVICE-HDA
1 - Disk-1, DEVICE-SDA, HOST-0, BUS-0, TARGET-0, LUN-0

I choose Option 1. The only thing I can do is activate option 8 now, Format Disk-1.
When I do that, I get an ERROR!.

What is in the Telnet window is the following:

Checking that no-one is using this disk right now ...
OK

Disk /dev/discs/disc1/disc: 0 cylinders, 64 heads, 32 sectors/track
read: Invalid argument

sfdisk: read error on /dev/discs/disc1/disc - cannot read sector 0
/dev/discs/disc1/disc: unrecognized partition table type
Old situation:
No partitions found

ERROR!

Formatting of Disk-1 failed.


Here's the end of the syslog (after the discovery of the 3Ware 9xxx Storage Controller):

# Dec 7 20:55:57 [3] SCSI subsystem initialized
# Dec 7 20:55:57 [4] 3ware 9000 Storage Controller device driver for Linux v2.26.02.012.
# Dec 7 20:55:57 [2] 3w-9xxx 0000:01:00.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 16
# Dec 7 20:55:57 [1] 3w-9xxx 0000:01:00.0: setting latency timer to 64
# Dec 7 20:55:57 [2] scsi0 : 3ware 9000 Storage Controller
# Dec 7 20:55:57 [4] 3w-9xxx: scsi0: Found a 3ware 9000 Storage Controller at 0xffa20000, IRQ: 16.
# Dec 7 20:55:57 [4] 3w-9xxx: scsi0: Firmware FH9X 4.04.00.016, BIOS BE9X 4.04.00.003, Ports: 128.
# Dec 7 20:55:57 [3] scsi 0:0:0:0: Direct-Access AMCC 9690SA-8I DISK 4.04 PQ: 0 ANSI: 5
# Dec 7 20:55:57 [2] usbcore: registered new interface driver usbfs
# Dec 7 20:55:57 [2] usbcore: registered new interface driver hub
# Dec 7 20:55:57 [2] usbcore: registered new device driver usb
# Dec 7 20:55:57 [2] uhci_hcd: USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver
# Dec 7 20:55:57 [2] uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 23 (level, low) -> IRQ 23
# Dec 7 20:55:57 [1] uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.0: setting latency timer to 64
# Dec 7 20:55:57 [2] uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.0: UHCI Host Controller
# Dec 7 20:55:57 [2] uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.0: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
# Dec 7 20:55:57 [2] uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.0: irq 23, io base 0x0000cc00
# Dec 7 20:55:57 [2] usb usb1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
# Dec 7 20:55:57 [2] hub 1-0:1.0: USB hub found
# Dec 7 20:55:57 [2] hub 1-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
# Dec 7 20:55:57 [2] uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.1: PCI INT B -> GSI 19 (level, low) -> IRQ 19
# Dec 7 20:55:57 [1] uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.1: setting latency timer to 64
# Dec 7 20:55:57 [2] uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.1: UHCI Host Controller
# Dec 7 20:55:57 [2] uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.1: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 2
# Dec 7 20:55:57 [2] uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.1: irq 19, io base 0x0000d000
# Dec 7 20:55:57 [2] usb usb2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
# Dec 7 20:55:57 [2] hub 2-0:1.0: USB hub found
# Dec 7 20:55:57 [2] hub 2-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
# Dec 7 20:55:57 [2] uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.2: PCI INT C -> GSI 18 (level, low) -> IRQ 18
# Dec 7 20:55:57 [1] uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.2: setting latency timer to 64
# Dec 7 20:55:57 [2] uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.2: UHCI Host Controller
# Dec 7 20:55:57 [2] uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.2: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 3
# Dec 7 20:55:57 [2] uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.2: irq 18, io base 0x0000d400
# Dec 7 20:55:57 [2] usb usb3: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
# Dec 7 20:55:57 [2] hub 3-0:1.0: USB hub found
# Dec 7 20:55:57 [2] hub 3-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
# Dec 7 20:55:57 [2] uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.3: PCI INT D -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 16
# Dec 7 20:55:57 [1] uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.3: setting latency timer to 64
# Dec 7 20:55:57 [2] uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.3: UHCI Host Controller
# Dec 7 20:55:57 [2] uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.3: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 4
# Dec 7 20:55:57 [2] uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.3: irq 16, io base 0x0000d800
# Dec 7 20:55:57 [2] usb usb4: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
# Dec 7 20:55:57 [2] hub 4-0:1.0: USB hub found
# Dec 7 20:55:57 [2] hub 4-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
# Dec 7 20:55:58 [2] ehci_hcd: USB 2.0 'Enhanced' Host Controller (EHCI) Driver
# Dec 7 20:55:58 [4] Warning! ehci_hcd should always be loaded before uhci_hcd and ohci_hcd, not after
# Dec 7 20:55:58 [2] ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: PCI INT A -> GSI 23 (level, low) -> IRQ 23
# Dec 7 20:55:58 [1] ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: setting latency timer to 64
# Dec 7 20:55:58 [2] ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: EHCI Host Controller
# Dec 7 20:55:58 [2] ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 5
# Dec 7 20:55:58 [2] ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: debug port 1
# Dec 7 20:55:58 [1] ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: cache line size of 128 is not supported
# Dec 7 20:55:58 [2] ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: irq 23, io mem 0xff4ffc00
# Dec 7 20:55:58 [2] ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: USB 2.0 started, EHCI 1.00
# Dec 7 20:55:58 [2] usb usb5: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
# Dec 7 20:55:58 [2] hub 5-0:1.0: USB hub found
# Dec 7 20:55:58 [2] hub 5-0:1.0: 8 ports detected
# Dec 7 20:55:58 [2] e100: Intel(R) PRO/100 Network Driver, 3.5.24-k2-NAPI
# Dec 7 20:55:58 [2] e100: Copyright(c) 1999-2006 Intel Corporation
# Dec 7 20:55:58 [2] e100 0000:06:08.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 20 (level, low) -> IRQ 20
# Dec 7 20:55:58 [2] e100 0000:06:08.0: PME# disabled
# Dec 7 20:55:58 [2] e100: eth0: e100_probe: addr 0xff530000, irq 20, MAC addr 00:16:76:14:3b:88
# Dec 7 20:55:58 [2] Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver
# Dec 7 20:55:58 [2] piix 0000:00:1f.1: IDE controller (0x8086:0x266f rev 0x03)
# Dec 7 20:55:58 [2] PIIX_IDE 0000:00:1f.1: PCI INT A -> GSI 18 (level, low) -> IRQ 18
# Dec 7 20:55:58 [2] piix 0000:00:1f.1: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
# Dec 7 20:55:58 [2] ide0: BM-DMA at 0xffa0-0xffa7
# Dec 7 20:55:58 [2] ide1: BM-DMA at 0xffa8-0xffaf
# Dec 7 20:55:58 [1] Probing IDE interface ide0.
# Dec 7 20:55:58 [2] hda: TRANSCEND, ATA DISK drive
# Dec 7 20:55:58 [2] usb 4-2: new low speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 2
# Dec 7 20:55:58 [2] usb 4-2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
# Dec 7 20:55:58 [1] hda: host max PIO4 wanted PIO255(auto-tune) selected PIO4
# Dec 7 20:55:58 [2] hda: UDMA/66 mode selected
# Dec 7 20:55:58 [1] Probing IDE interface ide1.
# Dec 7 20:55:59 [2] ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
# Dec 7 20:55:59 [2] ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
# Dec 7 20:55:59 [1] libata version 3.00 loaded.
# Dec 7 20:55:59 [1] ata_piix 0000:00:1f.2: version 2.13
# Dec 7 20:55:59 [2] ata_piix 0000:00:1f.2: PCI INT B -> GSI 19 (level, low) -> IRQ 19
# Dec 7 20:55:59 [2] ata_piix 0000:00:1f.2: MAP [ P0 P2 P1 P3 ]
# Dec 7 20:55:59 [1] ata_piix 0000:00:1f.2: setting latency timer to 64
# Dec 7 20:55:59 [2] scsi1 : ata_piix
# Dec 7 20:55:59 [2] scsi2 : ata_piix
# Dec 7 20:55:59 [2] ata1: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0xec00 ctl 0xe800 bmdma 0xdc00 irq 19
# Dec 7 20:55:59 [2] ata2: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0xe400 ctl 0xe000 bmdma 0xdc08 irq 19
# Dec 7 20:55:59 [1] ata2.01: NODEV after polling detection
# Dec 7 20:55:59 [2] ata2.00: ATAPI: TSSTcorpDVD-ROM SH-D163B, SB03, max UDMA/33
# Dec 7 20:55:59 [2] ata2.00: configured for UDMA/33
# Dec 7 20:55:59 [3] scsi 2:0:0:0: CD-ROM TSSTcorp DVD-ROM SH-D163B SB03 PQ: 0 ANSI: 5
# Dec 7 20:56:00 [4] Driver 'sd' needs updating - please use bus_type methods
# Dec 7 20:56:00 [5] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Too big for this kernel. Use a kernel compiled with support for large block devices.
# Dec 7 20:56:00 [3] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Unsupported sector size -75.
# Dec 7 20:56:00 [3] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] 0 512-byte hardware sectors: (0 B/0 B)
# Dec 7 20:56:00 [3] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write Protect is off
# Dec 7 20:56:00 [1] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Mode Sense: 23 00 00 00
# Dec 7 20:56:00 [3] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write cache: enabled, read cache: disabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA
# Dec 7 20:56:00 [3] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Attached SCSI disk
# Dec 7 20:56:01 [2] input: Logitech Logitech USB Keyboard as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.3/usb4/4-2/4-2:1.0/input/input3
# Dec 7 20:56:01 [2] generic-usb 0003:046D:C309.0001: input: USB HID v1.10 Keyboard [Logitech Logitech USB Keyboard] on usb-0000:00:1d.3-2/input0
# Dec 7 20:56:01 [2] input: Logitech Logitech USB Keyboard as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.3/usb4/4-2/4-2:1.1/input/input4
# Dec 7 20:56:01 [2] generic-usb 0003:046D:C309.0002: input: USB HID v1.10 Mouse [Logitech Logitech USB Keyboard] on usb-0000:00:1d.3-2/input1
# Dec 7 20:56:01 [2] usbcore: registered new interface driver usbhid
# Dec 7 20:56:01 [2] usbhid: v2.6:USB HID core driver
# Dec 7 20:56:01 [2] ide-gd driver 1.18
# Dec 7 20:56:01 [2] hda: max request size: 128KiB
# Dec 7 20:56:01 [2] hda: 250368 sectors (128 MB) w/2KiB Cache, CHS=978/8/32
# Dec 7 20:56:01 [2] hda: hda1 hda2
# Dec 7 20:56:01 [4] Driver 'sr' needs updating - please use bus_type methods
# Dec 7 20:56:01 [4] sr0: scsi3-mmc drive: 4x/32x cd/rw xa/form2 cdda tray
# Dec 7 20:56:01 [2] Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20
# Dec 7 20:56:01 [1] sr 2:0:0:0: Attached scsi CD-ROM sr0
# Dec 7 20:56:22 [5] hda: task_no_data_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
# Dec 7 20:56:22 [5] hda: task_no_data_intr: error=0x04 { DriveStatusError }
# Dec 7 20:56:22 [5] hda: possibly failed opcode: 0xb0
# Dec 7 20:56:22 [5] hda: task_no_data_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
# Dec 7 20:56:22 [5] hda: task_no_data_intr: error=0x04 { DriveStatusError }
# Dec 7 20:56:22 [5] hda: possibly failed opcode: 0xb0
# Dec 7 20:56:22 [5] hda: task_no_data_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
# Dec 7 20:56:22 [5] hda: task_no_data_intr: error=0x04 { DriveStatusError }
# Dec 7 20:56:22 [5] hda: possibly failed opcode: 0xb0
# Dec 7 20:56:25 [2] e100: eth0 NIC Link is Up 100 Mbps Full Duplex
# Dec 7 20:57:23 [5] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Too big for this kernel. Use a kernel compiled with support for large block devices.
# Dec 7 20:57:23 [3] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Unsupported sector size -75.
# Dec 7 20:57:26 [5] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Too big for this kernel. Use a kernel compiled with support for large block devices.
# Dec 7 20:57:26 [3] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Unsupported sector size -75.
# Dec 7 20:57:52 [5] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Too big for this kernel. Use a kernel compiled with support for large block devices.
# Dec 7 20:57:52 [3] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Unsupported sector size -75.
# Dec 7 20:57:55 [5] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Too big for this kernel. Use a kernel compiled with support for large block devices.
# Dec 7 20:57:55 [3] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Unsupported sector size -75.
# Dec 7 20:58:24 [5] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Too big for this kernel. Use a kernel compiled with support for large block devices.
# Dec 7 20:58:24 [3] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Unsupported sector size -75.
# Dec 7 20:58:27 [5] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Too big for this kernel. Use a kernel compiled with support for large block devices.
# Dec 7 20:58:27 [3] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Unsupported sector size -75.

What's going wrong? And more important: what's the solution?


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PostPosted: Sun Dec 06, 2009 3:43 pm 
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Maybe the solution is: format each individual drive before creating the RAID array?
(let's try that for now...)


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PostPosted: Sun Dec 06, 2009 4:06 pm 
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Nope - I think that you have bust the limit of 32-bit NASLite (as in the array size is too big). I would suggest waiting for NASLite-2x64 which should be along soon. (or PM Tony or Ralph....)


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PostPosted: Sun Dec 06, 2009 4:13 pm 
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This monologue interieur continues:

For future reference:

1. If you have a RAID controller, and want to use a few hard drives in a RAID array, first export the disk, one-by-one, using the BIOS of the controller
2. Format each individual disk in NASLite's Administration Utility
3. Export the disks in NASLite, set S.M.A.R.T etc
3. After a few hours, reboot, and set up the desired RAID array in the BIOS of your controller
4. That's it, hopefully


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PostPosted: Sun Dec 06, 2009 4:15 pm 
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Well, let's see Nick. I am formatting every f***ing drive, and hope you're not right.

(I must say that formatting with this 9690SA PCI-e x8 (in a x16 slot) is very fast)


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PostPosted: Sun Dec 06, 2009 4:24 pm 
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I have had problems with array controllers as well. NL would only format 4K cluster sizes, nothing larger for some reason.

My bet is that this was a 32Bit OS issue as Nick has said, I will have to give it a go later and see if he is right.

Mike


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