From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Mitchell Laks Subject: Re: Need to upgrade to latest stable mdadm version? Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2006 09:02:43 -0500 Message-ID: <200601230902.45171.mlaks@verizon.net> References: <200601221241.54689.mlaks@verizon.net> <43D3C5A8.3070200@dgreaves.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-reply-to: <43D3C5A8.3070200@dgreaves.com> Content-disposition: inline Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids On Sunday 22 January 2006 12:49 pm, David Greaves wrote: > Just FYI > I am running the *stock* 2.6.15 and get the same problems (ata timeouts > etc) > > I recently wrote to the lkml and ide lists following up an old post. > No replies yet. > > I run sata_via and sata_sil > (I've seen just a few people with these problems - various kernels - > all, to my recollection, seem to have two sets of sata controller > chips.... I wonder....) > > I note you say the *sid* kernel doesn't have these problems so I'll try > that. I just wanted to mention that the problem may exist on stock > kernels 'cos you talk about rolling your own... David! you are right! It does not work with the debian sid 2.6.15 kernel. You were far more observant than I. I thought that my 2 raids were working with the debian 2.6.15 but in fact it one of the drives had failed out of the array (thats why it seemed to work, I hadn't slept enough...). In fact your diagnosis is completely correct. I cannot get both sata_via and sata_promise up at the same time, without timeout problems. I am hereby switching exclusively to sata_promise as I can install multiple cards on the same machine. Mitchell > > David > > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html