>From: "Martin Eriksson" <nitrax@giron.wox.org> > >Try running with two drives on each controller, then only one controller >with four drives and see if it still locks up. The next test will be 4 drives off a single controller, then one drive off each channel. I retested it in linear and raid 0 again and it works fine, it is only raid 5 that's locking the system up. >Have you tried Andres IDE patch? Not yet, I'd forgotten about it :-( I'll add that to the things to try next week. >Also, what parameters do you use to set up the RAID5 array? Just the default ones out of the man page. Please don't CC me on anything sent to mailing lists or send me email directly unless it's a privacy issue, thanks. -- Rob | Ask questions the smart way: http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html _________________________________________________________________ Join the world�s largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. http://www.hotmail.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