On Wednesday 29 June 2005 03:38 pm, Eric Pretorious wrote: >I'm trying to install CentOS 3.3 (a.k.a. RedHat Enterprise Linux 3) on a >Supermicro 5013C-M8 w/ on-board Adaptec AIC-7902 Ultra320 controller >(connected to two Seagate ST373207LC 73GB hdd's in RAID1 connfiguration) but >am getting random crashes. (The screen is FILLED with I/O errors and raid1 >messages.) > >Is linux-raid compatible with the infamous AIC-7902? Is there any special >configuration that I need to perform in the Adaptect BIOS? Hm... This sounds fishy: %> dmesg ... md: md3: sync done. md: syncing: RAID array md2 md: minimum _guarenteed_ reconstruction speed: 100KB/sec/disc. md: using maximum available idle IO bandwidth (but not more than... md: using 12k window, over a total of 48064 blocks. md: delaying resync of md0 until md2 has finished resync (they share one or more physical units) md: delaying resync of md1 until md2 has finished resync (they share one or more physical units) ... Should I be concerned by the last two lines? -- Eric P., Truckee, CA - 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