[Leaplist] 3Ware AWOL

[Jason Boxman]

I find 3Ware cards about the most difficult to get working properly. 
I've had several 6xxx cards now that seem to go home to mommy on a soft 
or hard reboot.  Sometimes they eventually wake up and the system boots.

As of yet I haven't figured out a way to reliably solve the issue. 
Usually I play music PCI slots, as I've had that assist when 3Ware 
fights a SCSI controller for boot BIOS supremacy.  Musical slots is the 
last refuge of the hopeless, though.

Yeah, I know it's 2009 and SATA and PCIe is calling.  You go with the 
hardware you have, not what you might wish for or plan to have at a 
later date...

I suppose I have to be content to power cycle when I need to reboot.

Two different 6410s produce this behavior.  I've also seen it in a 
7500-4 on another box which never used to do it before.

With drives so large, next time I buy drives (I've had these 3-5 years 
now) I'll be doing SATA and RAID 1 with whatever SATA controller the 
mainboard ships with.  Enough expansion cards.


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