So this Adaptec card seems to have solved my problems. I set up a script to create about 600 gigs of data, and it ran with no problems, in less than seven hours. I think the average write speed came out to something like 200Mbs, which is totally fine.
I’ve called Dell, and a […]
So I gave up on the PERC 3/DC card. I called Dell and told them that I couldn’t use it anymore. I was having all kinds of problems with the new card, which they sent me to replace the first one, which I sent back because it was hanging the machine entirely (see […]
I’ve called in Dell’s Technical Support on this, because my new PERC 3/DC card which is supposed to help my hook up my new 1.8 TB RAID has gone totally berserk. For a while, it was just acting flakey, then it started ignoring keystrokes during the boot-up process. Now it just sits and […]
I’ve verified that most of my workstations are not on the same subnet as my server. This is unfortunate. I have also verified that when the packets are arriving at my server, they’ve got the MAC hardware address of the upstream router. This is also unfortunate, because it means that to the […]
Doing research on why my 3×100Mbs bonding setup on the linux server is round-robining packets on the way out, but the Cisco Catalyst 3548 XL is sending all the inbound packets to the same interface:
Cisco’s documentation says:
This software release supports two different types of port groups: source-based forwarding port groups and destination-based forwarding port groups.
Source-based […]