Hi, I got this error when creating a raid5 array: Jul 21 23:58:33 dude kernel: eip: 0211e5c9 Jul 21 23:58:33 dude kernel: ------------[ cut here ]------------ Jul 21 23:58:33 dude kernel: kernel BUG at include/asm/spinlock.h:152! Jul 21 23:58:33 dude kernel: invalid operand: 0000 [#1] Jul 21 23:58:33 dude kernel: SMP Jul 21 23:58:33 dude kernel: Modules linked in: ipv6 autofs4 natsemi ipt_REJECT ipt_state ip_conntrack iptable_filter ip_tables floppy sg microcode uhci_hcd ext 3 jbd raid5 xor raid1 dm_mod sata_promise libata sd_mod scsi_mod Jul 21 23:58:33 dude kernel: CPU: 0 Jul 21 23:58:33 dude kernel: EIP: 0060:[<0211e5f3>] Not tainted Jul 21 23:58:33 dude kernel: EFLAGS: 00010046 (2.6.7-1.492smp) Jul 21 23:58:33 dude kernel: EIP is at complete+0x2a/0x85 Jul 21 23:58:33 dude kernel: eax: 022dfb0d ebx: 5c8d7f3c ecx: 5c8d7f3c edx : 0211e5c9 Jul 21 23:58:33 dude kernel: esi: 5c8d7f40 edi: 00000246 ebp: 58061f94 esp : 58061f80 Jul 21 23:58:33 dude kernel: ds: 007b es: 007b ss: 0068 Jul 21 23:58:33 dude kernel: Process md5_resync (pid: 8384, threadinfo=58061000 task=58128860) Jul 21 23:58:33 dude kernel: Stack: 00000000 00000000 58061000 39e05b80 58061fb0 00000000 0227126d 00000000 Jul 21 23:58:33 dude kernel: 58128860 0211ff27 58061fc8 58061fc8 0211ce95 0231fa20 0238bfe0 00000000 Jul 21 23:58:33 dude kernel: 58128860 0211ff27 58061fc8 58061fc8 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 Jul 21 23:58:33 dude kernel: Call Trace: Jul 21 23:58:33 dude kernel: [<0227126d>] md_thread+0x1b0/0x1b9 Jul 21 23:58:33 dude kernel: [<0211ff27>] autoremove_wake_function+0x0/0x2d Jul 21 23:58:33 dude kernel: [<0211ce95>] schedule_tail+0xc/0x37 Jul 21 23:58:33 dude kernel: [<0211ff27>] autoremove_wake_function+0x0/0x2d Jul 21 23:58:33 dude kernel: [<022710bd>] md_thread+0x0/0x1b9 Jul 21 23:58:33 dude kernel: [<021041f1>] kernel_thread_helper+0x5/0xb Jul 21 23:58:33 dude kernel: Code: 0f 0b 98 00 c8 fa 2d 02 f0 fe 4b 04 0f 88 39 14 00 00 ff 03 I'm running 2.6.7-1.492smp on Fedora Core 2 with Promise SATA150 TX4 controllers and Maxtor Maxline II Plus drives. Anyone seen this before? R. -- http://robinbowes.com - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html