major pita w/LSI Tyan TA26 combo

[Vivek Khera]

On Mar 6, 2006, at 11:07 AM, Freddie Cash wrote:

>> the error stays with position 0 on the array.  If I drop the channel
>> down to U160 from U320, no errors.  This leads me to believe that the
>> backplane of the array box is not up to spec for U320.
>
> Is that connected to a riser card that is connected to the  
> motherboard?
>

yes, as are all my LSI cards.  I have one other 320-2X card in  
production for ~1 year now which has never so much as hiccuped.

The errors happen both on a Dell PE 1425SC and on an IBM e236m I'm  
testing.  Both have risers from the manufacturer.