Amd64 Unstable Areca

[Nikolas Britton]

On 3/24/07, Jan Mikkelsen <janm at transactionware.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Nikolas Britton wrote:
> > If that doesn't work move back down to 1.20.00.12:
> > http://www.nbritton.org/uploads/areca/
>
> I could consistently make 1.20.00.12 corrupt data.  If you are going to go
> back, that's probably a bad choice. 1.20.00.02 didn't seem to have
> corruption problems.
>

The 1.20.00.12 driver I pointed to was a custom hack I did for my
servers, It worked fine for the 7 months I was using it... I'm
assuming we're talking about I/O load, the servers rarely see high cpu
loads... the hardware:

http://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/Xeon1333/5000P/X7DBE.cfm

arcmsr0: <Areca SATA Host Adapter RAID Controller (RAID6 capable)
ARECA RAID ADAPTER0: Driver Version 1.20.00.13 2006-8-18
ARECA RAID ADAPTER0: FIRMWARE VERSION V1.41 2006-5-24
pass1 at arcmsr0 bus 0 target 16 lun 0
pass1: <Areca RAID controller R001> Fixed Processor SCSI-0 device
da0 at arcmsr0 bus 0 target 0 lun 0
da0: <Areca ARC-1220-VOL#00 R001> Fixed Direct Access SCSI-3 device
da0: 166.666MB/s transfers (83.333MHz, offset 32, 16bit), Tagged
Queueing Enabled
da0: 1430511MB (2929687040 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 182364C)

I just upgraded them for the DST change.  :-/