On Fri, 2010-09-10 at 15:22 +0100, Hugo Antunes wrote: > Greetings, > > Following the list this pasts days, building a big machine with 45 > sata2 disks (WD green 1.5TB), Sil3124 4 ports sata2 with 9 port > multipliers with 5 each also from Silicom image. > > This machine should smoke but it doesn't, attached is the dmesg dump where it is possible to see the enourmous ammount > of hard and soft resets.Using Ubuntu/server 10.4 2.6.32-25-server x86_64, been questioning if this patch could > make me have better numbers from this system, going to build a debian/ubuntu kernel image with the patch, if anyone > has a link for a deb image with this patch..apreciated. > > Keep the good work > > Regards, > ./hantunes Hi, I think it's very unlikely that my patch will have any impact on your problem, it is only a very minor improvement when creating new ports. I didn't get the dmesg attachment so I can't tell what sort of problems you are having, but with that many drives I'd start by checking the power supplies & cables and then try the latest kernel. regards Richard -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
