Hello ! I have been playing around with a new machine, RH7.2, ext3 and software RAID-5. Once in a while, the machine hangs, no message, and the only thing which works is the physical reset button. I have checked whatever I could from FAQs, HOWTOs and did not find the problem. How shall I go about it ? the only thing I have noticed is that 3 out of the 7 disks are on UDMA33, the other ones on UDMA 100. Does this have another effect than poor performance? Here some technical aspects of the machine: RedHat 7.2 Pro Kernel 2.4.9-13 RaidTools 0.90-25 RAID array: mounted as /store, root FS on a separate disk with ext3 7 disks of 75GB, each on its own IDE bus (loads of cabling...) chunk-size 64k, persistent superblock, no spare disk Access of /store: samba-2.2.1a-4 NFS (nfs-utils-0.3.1-13.7.2.1) web (apache-1.3.22-2) IMAP (imap-2000c-15) Besides RAID5, I have another machine running the same setup, and no problem ever. --Pascal
