On Tuesday 28 October 2003 09:26, Gordon Henderson wrote: > On Mon, 27 Oct 2003, berk walker wrote: > Good luck with your promise board (what type is it?) I've had a lot of > problems with them (kernels 2.4.20-22) They seem to work, but under heavy > load, I see processes getting stuck in "D" state (eg. nfsd or anything > doing lots of disk IO) Most of the time they recover, but I've load a disk > partition on more than one occasion (saved by raid, and it re-built OK > after a reboot). I've seen this in 2 different servers and tried both > Intel and AMD CPUs. Tonight I try a set of different PCI IDE controllers > in one server to see if that helps it. Promise cards do suck somewhat -albeit I use them- but what else is there ? The highpoint-equipped cards are even more sucky in many cases. > It's hard to tell if it's a real hardware problem or a software one (the > Promise driver being fairly new, patched in at 2.4.20, included in 2.4.22) Ehm, what ??? You're probably talking about the driver for the fasttrack cards who are -in their own respect- raid cards. But if you use a 'plain' card like the ultra it's just used as an additional IDE channel. That has worked long long before 2.4.20 and it is what I use. No sense in buying a pricey fasttrack if you're not going to use the raid but use the md tools instead. Regards, Maarten -- Yes of course I'm sure it's the red cable. I guarante[^%!/+)F#0c|'NO CARRIER - 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
