From: Maurice Hilarius > With regards to your message at 03:13 PM 5/9/02, Artur Jasowicz. Where you > stated: > >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. > > Probably cable problem.. May be, although I've used original, 18in cables, changed the config to use diferent controllers, the errors came from all drives, randomly. Isn't it unlikely, that all cables are bad? > > Maybe cards not getting a clean IRQ status. > I'm not sure what you mean by that, here's my IRQs is that ok? [root@production root]# cat /proc/interrupts CPU0 CPU1 0: 1060111 900968 IO-APIC-edge timer 1: 2223 1623 IO-APIC-edge keyboard 2: 0 0 XT-PIC cascade 5: 475613 476603 IO-APIC-level ide2, ide3, eth1 8: 1 0 IO-APIC-edge rtc 9: 464960 465255 IO-APIC-level ide4, ide5, eth2 10: 12405 11231 IO-APIC-level eth0 11: 69567 67494 IO-APIC-level ide6 12: 159 1172 IO-APIC-edge PS/2 Mouse 14: 48388 44855 IO-APIC-edge ide0 15: 48907 47090 IO-APIC-edge ide1 NMI: 0 0 LOC: 1961162 1961161 ERR: 0 MIS: 0 - 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