From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Bill Davidsen Subject: Re: PROBLEM: system crash on AMD64 with 2.6.17.11 while accessing 3TB Software-RAID5 Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2006 18:37:27 -0400 Message-ID: <4509D9A7.8060107@tmr.com> References: <758194931.20060829001041@TU-Ilmenau.de> <17654.24059.852752.251958@cse.unsw.edu.au> <44F6E962.40900@TU-Ilmenau.de> <44FC5D1A.6020809@tmr.com> <4500CF39.8010806@tu-ilmenau.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <4500CF39.8010806@tu-ilmenau.de> Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Ralf Herrmann Cc: Neil Brown , linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids Ralf Herrmann wrote: > 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, Thanks for letting us know what it was. Even if it was not the first thing we suggested. ;-) -- bill davidsen CTO TMR Associates, Inc Doing interesting things with small computers since 1979