From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ralf Herrmann Subject: Re: PROBLEM: system crash on AMD64 with 2.6.17.11 while accessing 3TB Software-RAID5 Date: Fri, 08 Sep 2006 11:02:33 +0900 Message-ID: <4500CF39.8010806@tu-ilmenau.de> References: <758194931.20060829001041@TU-Ilmenau.de> <17654.24059.852752.251958@cse.unsw.edu.au> <44F6E962.40900@TU-Ilmenau.de> <44FC5D1A.6020809@tmr.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <44FC5D1A.6020809@tmr.com> Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Bill Davidsen Cc: Neil Brown , linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids Dear Mr. Davidson and Mr. Brown, > It certainly is a legitimate question, and marginal power would have > been at the end of my list as well... However, if all else fails, try > formatting the new drives to use only the size of the old drive capacity > (RAID on small partitions) and see if that works. If so you may have > found some rare size-related bug. Seems as if the new power supply did the trick. The box's been running smoothly, for about 2 days lately. I'm currently not in office, but since i didn't get emergency calls from my colleagues i assume it still works. Thanks again for your time, Ralf Herrmann