From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: maarten van den Berg Subject: Re: Problem with RAID-5 on SuSE 9.1 (cp hangs, high system load, cpu waits) Date: Wed, 26 May 2004 23:21:36 +0200 Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <200405262321.36903.maarten@ultratux.net> References: <20040526155142.M13344@liquid-nexus.net> <005701c44365$8d89c230$0201a8c0@windows> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <005701c44365$8d89c230$0201a8c0@windows> Content-Disposition: inline To: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids On Wednesday 26 May 2004 23:08, TJ Harrell wrote: > > Oh and your motherboard is using a KT266A chipset - I personally won't > touch > a VIA chipset since that whole PCI / Soundblaster fiasco (I still > have > > > nightmares). AFAIK the KT266A has PCI issues which have some kind of > > workaround in the Linux kernel, however it might be a factor in your > situation. I wasn't totally aware of these issues... Is there any consensus on the newer VIA chipsets, like the KT400 and the KT600 ? I have the KT600 here and have not seen issues with it, but it is not yet running raid, so... Maarten > I was about to say the same thing. Which Southbridge do you have? > Particular VIA Southbridges have serious problems with transferring files. > It was a peculiar problem; most cases I've read about said that the problem > occurred when transferring files between the onboard controller and on > add-on controller. You might try taking all drives off the built-in > controllers and see if that helps the problem. -- When I answered where I wanted to go today, they just hung up -- Unknown