From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Brad Campbell Subject: Re: Software RAID5, promise IDE and system freeze... Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2004 13:15:12 +0400 Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <4132F020.1020801@wasp.net.au> References: <4132E76F.7090209@cg.cs.tu-bs.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <4132E76F.7090209@cg.cs.tu-bs.de> To: Lars Schimmer Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids Lars Schimmer wrote: > When building a raid with the 3 HDs on MoBo & SATA and 2 HDs of ONE of > these 3 promise, the RAID works flawless. > But if I try to build a RAID over HDs of 2 of these Promise PCI Cards, > the system freeze EVERYTIME. > System used: Debian sarge, fresh install from friday, raidtools2 and > kerne 2.4.27 > > Does ANYONE have any hints? Do you have alt-sysrq support compiled in? If so, does alt-sysrq-t give you any information or is it a complete hard lock. If it's a hard lock, can you enable the NMI oopser to try and find out where the system is freezing? > Or does anyone uses a RAID over 2 or more Promise PCI Cards? Yes, but SATA cards. Regards, Brad