From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264356AbUBDWmG (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Feb 2004 17:42:06 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S266557AbUBDWmG (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Feb 2004 17:42:06 -0500 Received: from mail.logiccontrol.es ([195.76.168.52]:12474 "EHLO mail.logiccontrol.es") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264356AbUBDWmA (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Feb 2004 17:42:00 -0500 From: Pedro Larroy Reply-To: piotr@member.fsf.org Organization: larroy.com To: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz , Andreas Steinmetz Subject: Re: Promise PDC20269 (Ultra133 TX2) + Software RAID Date: Wed, 4 Feb 2004 23:41:44 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.4 Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <6FF5C83C-55FA-11D8-AC00-000A95CEEE4E@computeraddictions.com.au> <4021628D.5030805@domdv.de> <200402042306.54046.bzolnier@elka.pw.edu.pl> In-Reply-To: <200402042306.54046.bzolnier@elka.pw.edu.pl> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-2" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200402042341.45215.piotr@member.fsf.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wednesday 04 February 2004 23:06, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote: > On Wednesday 04 of February 2004 22:22, Andreas Steinmetz wrote: > > Pedro Larroy wrote: > > > On Tue, Feb 03, 2004 at 02:08:31PM +1030, Ryan Verner wrote: > > >>And the machine is randomly locking up, and of course, on reboot, the > > >>raid array is rebuilt. Ouch. Any clues as to why? I'm sure the hard > > >>drive hasn't failed as it's brand new; I suspect a chipset > > >>compatibility problem or something. > > >> > > >>R > > > > > > I have similar issues with 20269. I have two cards on one box doing sw > > > raid5 on 6 ide drives. It only runs stably with 2.4.19 > > > It has been many months since I assembled that box, and I've tried > > > kernels from 2.4.20-ac, 2.5.x, 2.6.2 and all hang after some time > > > running. > > > > > > I remember that pdcs also hanged a dual processor box. > > > > In my case (see my mail to lkml today) I do suspect concurrent disk > > access and IO-APIC to be the culprit. If you're using an IO-APIC try > > booting with either "noapic" or "hdx=serialize" where hdx is one of the > > disks of your controller card. > > Try "noapic" first, "hdx=serialize" will kill you RAID performance. > > ---bart That box doesn't have APIC. just XT-PIC :( -- Pedro Larroy Tovar | piotr%member.fsf.org Software patents are a threat to innovation in Europe please check: http://www.eurolinux.org/