Simon Banton wrote: > At 20:52 +0800 13/9/07, Feizhou wrote: >> Well, the first thing I noted was that the H8DA8 was not on the list >> of compatible motherboards on the 3ware website. > > I challenged the vendor about that quite early on and was told that > they've used this combo before with no trouble, though I've yet to press > them on this point - but yes, that's a possibility I've not ruled out. > > The card's running the latest firmware that I know about, certainly the > fw in codeset 9.4.1.2 is the version intended to go with the driver > supplied in CentOS 4.5. > > It's definitely in the right slot, not using a riser and it's running at > the right speed: > > //serv1> /c0 show all > [snip] > /c0 Controller Bus Type = PCIX > /c0 Controller Bus Width = 64 bits > /c0 Controller Bus Speed = 133 Mhz > Hmm, how are you creating your ext3 filesystem(s) that you test on? Try creating it with a large journal (maybe 256MB) and run it in full journal mode.