Shoutcast crashing.
 

First post so be gentle:) I've done a search and cant find anything like my problem but please feal free to redirect me if this has already been answered.

I've got shoutcast running on my file-server/media machine. Its a 2.8c, with a gig of ram and a big bunch of hardrives, all except the boot drive on a highpoint raid array. I use shoutcast on a line in to feed radio onto my local lan which works very well.

The problem I have is when I write anything to disk (either the boot drive or the array) it breaks up the stream and shoutcast doesn't/can't reconnect automatically, I have to kil the server and restart winamp for the stream to work again.

Any ideas how to solve this?

what raid level are you running?

have you upgraded the firmware of the HighPoint controller?

Its raid level 5 but I know although its a hardware card the raid is done in the driver so its still software really.

The Shoutcast server and winamp dsp are both installed to the boot-drive which is not part of the raid.

I am using the drivers from out of the box, I'll check to see if a newer one is available.

if the mp3s on the raid array try different stripe sizes, that might help