From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263587AbTDWXSu (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Apr 2003 19:18:50 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264305AbTDWXSu (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Apr 2003 19:18:50 -0400 Received: from freesurfmta04.sunrise.ch ([194.230.0.33]:55782 "EHLO freesurfmail.sunrise.ch") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263587AbTDWXSt (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Apr 2003 19:18:49 -0400 Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2003 01:29:09 +0200 From: Olivier Bornet To: Alan Cox Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: problem with a cobalt RaQ550 system and DMA (Serverworks OSB4 in impossible state) Message-ID: <20030423232909.GE21689@puck.ch> Mail-Followup-To: Olivier Bornet , Alan Cox , Linux Kernel Mailing List References: <20030423212713.GD21689@puck.ch> <1051136469.2062.108.camel@dhcp22.swansea.linux.org.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="FsscpQKzF/jJk6ya" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1051136469.2062.108.camel@dhcp22.swansea.linux.org.uk> X-From: Olivier Bornet X-Url: http://puck.ch/ User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.3i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org --FsscpQKzF/jJk6ya Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hi Alan, On Wed, Apr 23, 2003 at 11:21:10PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote: > On Mer, 2003-04-23 at 22:27, Olivier Bornet wrote: > > I'm trying to install Debian on 4 RaQ550 with each 2 80GB disks. All > > seems OK with 3 of RaQ, but with one, it crash when I put the two disks > > in a RAID1 meta device. In fact, it as crash at about 6% before the 70GB > > partition is fully synchronized. >=20 >=20 > Bad block I think. Its a bug fixed in 2.4.21pre. It trips a sanity > check for an OSB4 bug inadvertantly. 2.4.21pre handles CSB5 with full > UDMA and OSB4 in MWDMA2 without tripping wrongly. >=20 > If your chipset is CSB5 you can also just comment out the check and > rebuild At this time, I have compiled and installed a 2.4.20-ac2 + some cobalt patches. Is the bug also fixed in 2.4.20-ac2, or must I rebuild the 2.4.20 with the check commented out ? (currently, the sync of the partition is in the way with the ac2 kernel... just started... need about 100 minutes to finish...). I will comment out the check tomorrow if this is needed. Thanks for your help, and keep up the good work. Olivier --=20 Olivier Bornet | fran=E7ais : http://puck.ch/f Swiss Ice Hockey Results | english : http://puck.ch/e http://puck.ch/ | deutsch : http://puck.ch/g Olivier.Bornet@puck.ch | italiano : http://puck.ch/i Get my PGP-key at http://puck.ch/pgp or at http://wwwkeys.pgp.net --FsscpQKzF/jJk6ya Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+pyHFdj3R/MU9khgRAgbSAJ9Ve/MUxutxJP5EkvF58stdz+iUVACfYab2 4BprTRQA5KOX5YR2myJOX3g= =P6FH -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --FsscpQKzF/jJk6ya--