On Tuesday 28 October 2003 15:25, you wrote: > 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... Well, you might be lucky. My own experiences with them were with older cards and chipsets, from years back. Stuff changes. :-) > > > 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) That's an Ultra 133 TX, I have the same one. > 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) Hmm. Ok. Weird... My antique SuSE linux distro 7.3 recognized them right away, and so did the latest SuSE 8.2 I installed over that yesterday. SuSE has been known to apply a lot of patches to their kernel though... > Gordon 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
