Everybody and their brother is attempting NAS with cheap VIA boards and
addon cards and they go south and die.
http://www.tecchannel.de/hardware/817/index.html
This is one of the better explaination why :-/
Regards,
Andre Hedrick
LAD Storage Consulting Group
On Tue, 26 Mar 2002, Kai-Boris Schad wrote:
> Hi !
>
> I have problems with PC mainboard using the Via VT8367 [KT266] chipset.
> lspci shows the configuration:
> lspci
> 00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8367 [KT266]
> 00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8367 [KT266 AGP]
> 00:0c.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139 (rev 10)
> 00:0e.0 Unknown mass storage controller: Promise Technology, Inc. 20268 (rev
> 01)00:0f.0 Unknown mass storage controller: Promise Technology, Inc. 20268
> (rev 01)00:11.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8233 PCI to ISA Bridge
> 00:11.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. Bus Master IDE (rev 06)
> 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Rage XL AGP (rev 27)
>
> The CPU is a 1400MHz Athlon.
> We use this system for a software Raid 5. If we produce heavy load on the
> disks and network the system hangs. There is no log of errors at all. We
> tried to change the network card form a 3com to a rtl83xx. The system remains
> a litle longer stable but crashes then too. We also tried to have the
> harddisks on seperate ide channels but this didn't solve the crashs.
> It seems to be something with the dma, because if we disable the dma of the
> harddisks the system is stable. Does anybody also recognise this problem ?
> Is there any solution for this effect ?
>
> Thanks a lot
>
> Kai
>
>
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