From: Andreas Steinmetz <ast@domdv.de>
To: piotr@member.fsf.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Promise PDC20269 (Ultra133 TX2) + Software RAID
Date: Wed, 04 Feb 2004 22:22:21 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4021628D.5030805@domdv.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040204204622.GA14326@larroy.com>
Pedro Larroy wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 03, 2004 at 02:08:31PM +1030, Ryan Verner wrote:
>
>
>>And the machine is randomly locking up, and of course, on reboot, the
>>raid array is rebuilt. Ouch. Any clues as to why? I'm sure the hard
>>drive hasn't failed as it's brand new; I suspect a chipset
>>compatibility problem or something.
>>
>>R
>>
>
>
> I have similar issues with 20269. I have two cards on one box doing sw raid5
> on 6 ide drives. It only runs stably with 2.4.19
> It has been many months since I assembled that box, and I've tried kernels
> from 2.4.20-ac, 2.5.x, 2.6.2 and all hang after some time running.
>
> I remember that pdcs also hanged a dual processor box.
>
In my case (see my mail to lkml today) I do suspect concurrent disk
access and IO-APIC to be the culprit. If you're using an IO-APIC try
booting with either "noapic" or "hdx=serialize" where hdx is one of the
disks of your controller card.
--
Andreas Steinmetz
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-02-04 21:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-02-03 3:38 Promise PDC20269 (Ultra133 TX2) + Software RAID Ryan Verner
2004-02-03 6:12 ` Ryan Verner
2004-02-03 8:47 ` Pasi Kärkkäinen
2004-02-03 9:07 ` Gunnlaugur Thor Briem
2004-02-04 20:46 ` Pedro Larroy
2004-02-04 21:22 ` Andreas Steinmetz [this message]
2004-02-04 22:06 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2004-02-04 22:41 ` Pedro Larroy
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