On 2014-09-07, Valeri Galtsev galtsev@kicp.uchicago.edu wrote:
I guess after that I should declare myself to be lucky. None out of more than a couple of dozens of 3ware cards ever did harm for me. I did once had one of them fried (my clumsiness most likely), which then just didn't come up (3ware just replaced card without a question asked). Could yours be _slightly_ fried?
The first card could have been slightly fried; it came back up after a reboot, and would kernel panic again within a few days. Since I had what I thought was a good second card I never bothered to test the first one thoroughly. After the second card ate the array I bailed on the old cards completely; had the 9650 been easy to obtain I would have, but it was pretty much EOL by then.
The 9650 that died last month refused to be recognized on cold boot, so I think it's totally gone. It's old enough that it's not worth my time trying to figure out whether it's revivable.
--keith