Re: HighPoint 374

["Tomi Orava" <Tomi.Orava@ncircle.nullnet.fi>]

>> Are you capable of trying if the hdparm -m0 trick
>> works for you ?
>
> you mean the fs corruption on soft raid or the interupts problem ?
> i dumped the raid setup as i couldn't find a way to debug it
> and my drives are pretty full again, but i'll try to free some space

I meant the interrupt problem, because if that problem exists
there doesn't seem to be a reasonable way to figure out what
is the reason for the filesystem corruption.

> for the interupts
> with test7-bk8  , acpi=off pci=noacpi &
> hdparm  -m0 -d1 -X69  /dev/hd[a,e,g]
> hdparm  -m16 -d1 -X69  /dev/hd[a,e,g]
> i don't see timeouts
> if i omit -m i do see them sometimes

Ok, so if I understood you correctly, the interrupt problem
persists _only_ if you leave the multiple sector setting on
its default setting ? If you explicitly disable it, or set
it to maximum it works fine ? Does it work with any value ?

> (i see them both with -m and without -m if i try to use TCQ )

I'd really like to see the stable series working properly
before jumping into the 2.6-series test kernels ... Although,
I'm still wondering how come TCQ is known to work with 370-chip
as Jens said, but not with 374-chip ...

Regards,
Tomi Orava

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