Reverted to 2003 Enterprise SP2. It is working without the glitches, but the performance of 15Mb/sec with iometer is not great. Target volume 2Tb of 11 x 1Tb disk in Raid5. I have set jumbo frames on the connected nic. update: tried HDTune instead. Much better, with 70Mb/sec, which is better than th...

On 2008, using latest HP driver. Configured the NIC using HP Network Config util. Set Jumbo Frames on and all other enhancements off. After the reboot Starport has lost the drive, and the server hung trying to change the NIC settings & once again doesn't shutdown again. On the NIC, the only bind...

The connection is a crossover cable, and the Coraid firmware is the latest.


I'll try 2003 R2 and see if that is better.

When I increase the ethernet adapter MTU, windows gives me issues with an AOE disk. Server is HP DL380 G4, disk is 2Gb GBT partition of a Coraid SR2461 10Gb raid5 disk. copying/deleting files to the AOE disk is ok, but Disk Manager hangs, as does chkdsk, defrag, io meter etc. Then server won't shutd...