On Tue, 28 Oct 2003, maarten van den Berg wrote: > 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. Hm. I'm just about to try a pair of HighPoint cards tonight... > > 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. The cards I have identify in /proc/pci as: Unknown mass storage controller: Promise Technology, Inc. 20269 (#2) (rev 2) They aren't RAID cards (as far as I'm aware!) and I needed to apply the AC patches to 2.4.20 to get them to be recognised. (These patches are integrated into 2.4.22) Gordon - 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
