From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Fri, 25 May 2001 02:26:39 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Fri, 25 May 2001 02:26:29 -0400 Received: from kwanon.research.canon.com.au ([203.12.172.254]:30215 "HELO kwanon.research.canon.com.au") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id ; Fri, 25 May 2001 02:26:25 -0400 Subject: Re: Big-ish SCSI disks To: scott@spiteful.org (Scott Murray) Date: Fri, 25 May 2001 16:22:36 +1000 (EST) Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: from "Scott Murray" at May 25, 2001 12:29:05 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL3] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <20010525062236.8CC1837530@zapff.research.canon.com.au> From: gjohnson@research.canon.com.au (Greg Johnson) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Thanks. Interesting that you mention the Severworks LE chipset. We have 2 identical machines with the intel STL MOBO wich uses the Severworks LE. They are both dual PIII 1GHz 1GB mem and ultra 160 drives. I have had nothing but trouble getting RedHat 7.1 beta-1, 7.1 beta-2 and 7.1 release. The OS tended to install ok but on beta1, only the up kernel would boot. On beta-2 and release both up and smp kernels would boot. On neither of the systems have I managed to build a kernel up or smp, new or same version as was installed. When I tried to boot the kernel I had built, the scsi driver would fail to load. This also happen on the Redhat installed smp kernel in beta-1 and on any of the redhat installed kernels in either of beta-2 or release when I tried to use disk striping. Have you experienced any issues like this? Have you successfuly built a kernel that booted on these machines? Regards Greg. Quoth Scott Murray: > > On Fri, 25 May 2001, Greg Johnson wrote: > > > Hi kernel poeple, > > > > Can anyone out there say for certain that 76GB SCSI disks should > > just work with kernel versions 2.2 and/or 2.4? We need to get some > > big disk space and have heard reports of problems with disks > > bigger than 30GB under linux. > > I set up a machine at work a few months ago with two Seagate 73GB > Ultra160 drives (model ST173404LW) using the Adaptec AIC-7899 adapter > on board a ServerWorks LE chipset based motherboard. Everything has > been working fine using the stock RedHat 7.0 2.2.16-22smp kernel. I > also played with some 2.4.1-ac kernels to try out ReiserFS, and also > had no problems using the disks. > > Scott > > > -- > ============================================================================= > Scott Murray email: scott@spiteful.org > http://www.spiteful.org (coming soon) ICQ: 10602428 > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- > "Good, bad ... I'm the guy with the gun." - Ash, "Army of Darkness" > -- +------------------------------------------------------+ | Do you want to know more? www.geocities.com/worfsom/ | | ..ooOO Greg Johnson OOoo.. | | HW/SW Engineer gjohnson@research.canon.com.au | | Canon Information Systems Research Australia (CISRA) | | 1 Thomas Holt Dr., North Ryde, NSW, 2113, Australia | | "I FLEXed my BISON and it went YACC!" - me. | +------------------------------------------------------+