From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Spencer Tuttle Subject: Re: New raid5 took 5 days for initial build on spare drive Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2005 12:42:54 -0700 Message-ID: <4374F43E.40308@fastmail.fm> References: <1131577030.27623.247169656@webmail.messagingengine.com> <43728312.5010701@panix.com> <43728AD6.2080002@fastmail.fm> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <43728AD6.2080002@fastmail.fm> Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids Spencer Tuttle wrote: > berk walker wrote: > >> Just a couple of things to think about before the board explodes. :-) >> >> Are your drives doing DMA? Important. No, I was not using DMA. I found the patches for the driver I needed applied them now, I am creating an array on the same disks in 30 mins not 5 days. Thank You, Spencer