hi ya artur On Sat, 11 May 2002, Danilo Godec wrote: > On Fri, 10 May 2002, Artur Jasowicz wrote: > > > The more I think about it the more it seems like the system not > > keeping up with the drives though. Isn't it strange that both my 2000+ make sure that all your disks on the same ide cable is of the same speed... and its options defined similarly... ata33 on one cable... ata66 on a 80-pin ide cable - no other disk speeds ata100 on a different ide cable ata133 on a different ide cable.. -- do NOT mix drives of different ata speeds.. hdparam -iv /dev/hdxx will tell you what speed it is make sure that your cables are good/clean and not bent out of shape.. http://www.linux-1u.net/Disks c ya alvin > It's a wild guess, but you might want to try disabling one of the > processors using 'nosmp' kernel parameter. Maybe Athlons have some issues > with SMP configuration. > > Next would be testing a single drive. If the problem exists using a single > drive, you should try some other controller (I never used a HPT, but a > friend of mine has a problem with it - dunno what exactly though). > > OR, having three IDE controllers sharing one IRQ just might be a problem. > I remember that on my SMP motherboards I had a lot more available IRQs > (over 25), available through APIC (whatever that is). > - 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
