On Tue, 3 Aug 2004, Tim Small wrote: > I'm using kernel.org 2.6.8rc2 (also used 2.6.5rc3), with libata on > Debian/Sarge (not that the distribution should matter, this is all > kernel side stuff) - both on Xeons, and Opterons, all filesystems are It matters to the extent that some of the distros like to use heavily patched kernels...so one distro's 2.4.x kernel may be quite different from another's. So unless you build custom kernels from the kernel.org sources, kernel verion _and_ distro is more meaningful. It seems (from Maxtor's powermax util) that I do have at least one defective drive...so hopefully that's all the problem was. I'm building an array now with the remaining 5 drives that passed the powermax tests. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Jon Lewis | I route Senior Network Engineer | therefore you are Atlantic Net | _________ http://www.lewis.org/~jlewis/pgp for PGP public key_________ - 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
