> > System - Linux-Mandrake 8.2, kernel 2.4.18. > > Hardware: Asus A7V motherboard, 2 x Promise Ultra100 TX2 controllers, 8 > > Matrox 120 GB drives, 1 60 GB Matrox drive. > > > > If I try to create a single RAID5 array using all 8 120 GB drives, > > some 800 GB effective, shortly after starting that md the system > > locks completely. It doesn't appear to do so with up to 6 devices > > (I'll be doing more testing to find out exactly when it dies, but > > it's a long process of recovering the system each time). > > Could this be a shortcoming of your power supply unit? I guess with > raid5 all disks get examined where with LVM it would not really load > all disks? Perhaps, but most often, when an array overloads a powersupply, you notice it on boot, not during running - overcoming the inertia of stopped platters takes a good bit of extra juice. Ross Vandegrift ross@willow.seitz.com - 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
