From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "JaniD++" Subject: promise driver stability question (bugreport?) Date: Thu, 9 Feb 2006 12:11:34 +0100 Message-ID: <005801c62d69$99298950$9d00a8c0@dcccs> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-2" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from smtp.enternet.hu ([62.112.192.21]:50183 "EHLO smtp.enternet.hu") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1422743AbWBILFI (ORCPT ); Thu, 9 Feb 2006 06:05:08 -0500 Received: from [62.68.179.10] (helo=dcccs) by smtp.enternet.hu with esmtpa (Exim 4) id 1F79bX-0001Ca-IM for linux-ide@vger.kernel.org; Thu, 09 Feb 2006 12:04:51 +0100 Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org Hello, Jeff, list, 10 days ago i have upgrade my system from 8TB to 13.2TB (the system info is the bottom of mail), and now i have seriously problem with my 2 disk node. (first i try the sil3112 based cards, but this looks like wery unstable, makes data lost, very worst write speed with multiple cards and i have replaced these cards with promise controllers.) Currently i use the ICH5 , promise sata 300 TX4 and promise sata 300 TX2 cards/chips only. I use 2.6.16-rc2-git5, because only this kernel knows what i need. The problem is, one of my disk nodes seriously reboots. (about 4-8 hourly) I try to catch the error message with remote syslogd, but i cannot see any valuable info. At this time i can see the reboot only happens, when the concentrator is writing to nodes. The reboot is newer happens, when the node is resyncing, doing recovery for a long time (~6 hours) and have no other work. The reboot makes no data lost, except the dirty buffer. (looks like reset) First i try to track down the problem to hardware, but this looks like good. (after the system upgrade on the prevously stable nodes, the new hardware is only the HDD, and the promise cards, plus the kernel.) Today i try to replace the e1000 nic driver in the kernel with the old, and known to be stable version, but the reboot happened again. :-( Is there any info or known bug about promise driver? (or 2.6.16-rc kernels) What do you recommend to do or try? Thanks, Janos The system info: 4x 3.3TB disk nodes, and one concentrator, without disks. The nodes: Abit IS7 motherboard (i865), P4 3G, 1G ram, Intel Gigabit Pro NIC. 4x IDE maxtor 300GB in ICH5 2x SATA maxtor 300GB in ICH5-sata 4x SATA maxtor 300GB in Promise sata 300 TX4 2x SATA maxtor 300GB in Promise sata 300 TX2