Scott Marlowe wrote:
> Areca doesn't make the high point rocket raid cards (which are medium
> quality RAID cards).
>
On a good day maybe. HighPoint is a pretty miserable RAID vendor--in
the same league as Promise from what I've seen as far as their Linux
driver support goes. In generally, and for reasons I'm not completely
sure of, everyone selling "fake RAID" cards seems to be completely
incompetent. The page at http://linuxmafia.com/faq/Hardware/sata.html
hasn't been updated in a while, but as of 2007 all the current HighPoint
cards were still based on closed-source drivers only. Completely
worthless hardware IMHO.
> Sounds like your hardware is bad. Could be mobo / cpu / memory or
> RAID card. Does this machine "hang" every so often or anything?
>
It's not out of the question for this sort of problem to be caused by a
bad driver too. In this case it seems more likely it's a drive failure
though.
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