Keep losing RAID device

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Chris Mason wrote:

>The drives are on 2 x 2 channel Promise Ultra100 IDE cards, each drive has
>it's own channel.
>I don't think the motherbaord is relevant, but it a 2.4 GHz Intel processor
>and an Asus MB of some kind.
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I had same problem with an scsi controller on an compaq server i managed
to stop it using last driver updates. Have you tried it? Or are you
using them allready?

>Three of the drives work fine, it is only one that has this problem.
>RAID 5 works with three or more drives.
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yeah sorry about this one. i was under the false impression that it
always needs 2n+1 drives. i don't know how and where i got it :(

>Chris Mason
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