On Fri, 15 Mar 2002, Neil Brown wrote: > Yes, thankyou for the extra detail. I hadn't even thought of looking > through the autodetect stuff. > However it hasn't helped:-( > I still cannot find anything that would cause > cat /proc/mdstat > to hang. It must be that one of the semaphores is down when it should > be up, but I cannot find any path that would leave a semaphore down. > > I have even tried to duplicate your results. The only difference that > I can tell between my setup and yours is that I am using SCSI instead > of IDE and that shouldn't matter. I think so too. Exept that perhaps IDE is a litle faster on those operations ? > I don't have the root filesystem on any of these md devices either (I > don't know if you do) but again, that shouldn't matter. > In current setup we don't have root devices on md either (although they will be on final setup). > Is there anything else at all unusual about your setup? Use of Promise controlers perhaps (speed) ? But they do work quite well with quasy patch and reverted patch from 2.4.9. > A you using an initramdisk or loading anything as modules or have any > other patches or anything like that? > Nope, I don't think so. Danci could tell more about those. lp gody __________________________________________________________________ | Matjaz Godec | Agenda d.o.o. | ISP for business | | Tech. Manager | Gosposvetska 84 | WAN networks | | gody@slon.net | si-2000 Maribor | Internet/Intranet | | tel:+386.2.2340860 | Slovenija | Application servers | |http://www.slon.net |http://www.agenda.si | Caldera OpenLinux | - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
