----- Original Message -----
From: "Artur Jasowicz" <arturj@mousebusiness.com>
To: <linux-raid@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: "Maurice Hilarius" <maurice@harddata.com>
Sent: Thursday, May 09, 2002 11:16 PM
Subject: Re: Fw: DriveReady SeekComplete problems
> 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?
>
Unless those aren't ATA-100 cables and it's still using ATA-100 mode...
I think ATA-66 or higher you need those 80-wire cables... Just a thought.
And the solid-core 80 pin cables don't handle folding well at all, maybe
something's gone flaky in them?
> >
> > 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
>
>
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