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 10:18:05 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Fri, 25 May 2001 10:17:56 -0400 Received: from gw-yyz.somanetworks.com ([216.126.67.39]:59853 "EHLO somanetworks.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Fri, 25 May 2001 10:17:45 -0400 Date: Fri, 25 May 2001 10:17:44 -0400 From: Mark Frazer To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Big-ish SCSI disks Message-ID: <20010525101744.C32217@somanetworks.com> Mail-Followup-To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <20010525062236.8CC1837530@zapff.research.canon.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010525062236.8CC1837530@zapff.research.canon.com.au>; from gjohnson@research.canon.com.au on Fri, May 25, 2001 at 04:22:36PM +1000 Organization: Detectable, well, not really Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Greg Johnson [01/05/25 08:51]: > Have you experienced any issues like this? > Have you successfuly built a kernel that booted on these machines? I'm also a user of the machine Scott mentioned. We're booting it off of a smaller scsi disk, not the 76G disks. The disks are partitioned as [mjfrazer@pyle mjfrazer]$ cat /proc/partitions major minor #blocks name rio rmerge rsect ruse wio wmerge wsect wuse running use aveq 8 0 8969493 sda 381817 450620 6656780 2095010 544380 197071 5968764 25617960 0 3648250 27741440 8 1 40131 sda1 68 382 900 680 58 23 164 5210 0 5780 5890 8 2 1 sda2 1 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 8 5 6835626 sda5 378536 446124 6597282 2077550 543908 194587 5945600 25601060 0 3635020 27707080 8 6 2088418 sda6 3211 4114 58594 16790 414 2461 23000 11750 0 17190 28540 8 16 71687369 sdb 5644131 6544183 97506292 29459090 4734971 25903242 245412336 901326350 0 38801430 931623210 8 17 71681998 sdb1 5644130 6544183 97506290 29459520 4734971 25903242 245412336 901326750 0 38801290 931623950 8 32 71687369 sdc 5647535 6545287 97542738 29398000 4707634 25931186 245412336 931729050 0 39181580 962005610 8 33 71681998 sdc1 5647534 6545287 97542736 29398380 4707634 25931186 245412336 931729530 0 39181540 962005420 9 0 71681920 md0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 [mjfrazer@pyle mjfrazer]$ -mark > Quoth Scott Murray: > > > > 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.