On Tue, 2005-03-15 at 11:54 +0100, Ivo Panacek wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have recently installed CentOS4 (i386 version) on server.
>
> After I run
>
> mdadm --create /dev/md0 --level=raid5 --raid-devices=6
> --spare-devices=1 $DEVLIST
>
> ($DEVLIST is /dev/sda1 ... 7 same SATA disks on three different
> sata controllers, two on-board, one pci-card)
>
> it starts to build raid but at the end (> 3 hours) it produces kernel bug.
>
> Could it be hardware error, or it is really kernel bug and I should
> try newer kernel (I prefer using stock centos kernel !) ?
>
is it a real dual processor machine or HyperThreading.
I am assuming that the drivers work for the drives, that you see them
all via fdisk -l, and that they are the correct size, etc.
Maybe try booting to the non-smp (regular) kernel for building the RAID.
should your device list entry be:
/dev/sda[1-7]
Just a couple thoughts
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