Artur Jasowicz wrote: >I've posted the message below to linux-kernel, but there were no replies. Does anyone here have any suggestions? > >I am building a file server with 5 drive software RAID5 array. I am using three IWill SIDE-100 (Highpoint 370A) controllers as my IDE interfaces, not using their RAID functionality. One Maxtor 160GB drive per channel, two channels per controller. I plan on adding hot spare as the sixth drive in the future. There's one 160GB partition on each drive. Linux version 2.4.19-pre7smp-020502b (root@production) (gcc version 2.96 20000731 (Red Hat Linux 7.1 2.96-98)) #6 SMP Thu May 2 12:15:34 CDT 2002 >This is a dual Athlon 2000+ MP on Tyan Tiger S2466N-4 with 1GB RAM. OS and swap runs on separate drives and controllers. This array will be just for data once it is configured. > >Below are the most relevant parts of my logs. I will post further details if anyone is willing to help, just let me know what info you need. Any suggestions greatly appreciated. > I Had the same problem on my old Server. I found out that gigabyte said, this is a 33UDMA-Board but linux tried to run the disk in UDMA66. Throtteling down the disks using HDPARM -X was the solution for me. cheers, Karsten - 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
