From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S266566AbUBDV0Y (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Feb 2004 16:26:24 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S266595AbUBDVYk (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Feb 2004 16:24:40 -0500 Received: from hermes.domdv.de ([193.102.202.1]:4367 "EHLO zeus.domdv.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S266566AbUBDVWm (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Feb 2004 16:22:42 -0500 Message-ID: <4021628D.5030805@domdv.de> Date: Wed, 04 Feb 2004 22:22:21 +0100 From: Andreas Steinmetz User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031022 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: piotr@member.fsf.org CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Promise PDC20269 (Ultra133 TX2) + Software RAID References: <6FF5C83C-55FA-11D8-AC00-000A95CEEE4E@computeraddictions.com.au> <20040204204622.GA14326@larroy.com> In-Reply-To: <20040204204622.GA14326@larroy.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.76.7.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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