On Fri, 2005-09-30 at 11:28 -0700, Brad Dameron wrote: > http://www.areca.com.tw/products/html/pcix-sata.htm > > Or if you want the best performance you can get with SATA look at this > one: Speaking of Areca stuff, someone I'm working with someone who has a system that appears to be running well with 3.5 terabytes of usable capacity, But whenever they try to reboot it, it hangs on sync'ing disks (I haven't seen it first hand yet, but that's what I'm told is happening). I haven't tried: sync & sync & sync & ... reboot(LINUX_REBOOT_CMD_RESTART); ...yet, the last part of which I believe is supposed to reboot without sync'ing? Has anyone encountered this before? Thanks! Some specifics follow: Controller info: strombrg@hiperstore ~]$ dmesg | grep -i areca ARECA RAID: 64BITS PCI BUS DMA ADDRESSING SUPPORTED scsi0 : ARECA ARC1130 PCI-X 12 PORTS SATA RAID CONTROLLER (RAID6-ENGINE Inside) Vendor: Areca Model: ARC-1130-VOL#00 Rev: R001 CPU info: [strombrg@hiperstore ~]$ cat /proc/cpuinfo processor : 0 vendor_id : AuthenticAMD cpu family : 15 model : 5 model name : AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 244 stepping : 10 cpu MHz : 1794.825 cache size : 1024 KB fpu : yes fpu_exception : yes cpuid level : 1 wp : yes flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 syscall nx mmxext lm 3dnowext 3dnow bogomips : 3597.17 TLB size : 1024 4K pages clflush size : 64 cache_alignment : 64 address sizes : 40 bits physical, 48 bits virtual power management: ts fid vid ttp processor : 1 vendor_id : AuthenticAMD cpu family : 15 model : 5 model name : AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 244 stepping : 10 cpu MHz : 1794.825 cache size : 1024 KB fpu : yes fpu_exception : yes cpuid level : 1 wp : yes flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 syscall nx mmxext lm 3dnowext 3dnow bogomips : 3590.12 TLB size : 1024 4K pages clflush size : 64 cache_alignment : 64 address sizes : 40 bits physical, 48 bits virtual power management: ts fid vid ttp OS info: [strombrg@hiperstore ~]$ cat /etc/redhat-release Fedora Core release 4 (Stentz) Kernel info: [strombrg@hiperstore ~]$ cat /proc/version Linux version 2.6.13-mm2 (root@hiperstore) (gcc version 4.0.1 20050727 (Red Hat 4.0.1-5)) #2 SMP Thu Sep 8 23:10:46 PDT 2005 It appears to be an (otherwise) unmodified Andrew Morton kernel they're using: [strombrg@hiperstore linux-2.6.13-mm2]$ find . -type f -print | egrep -vi '\.ko$|\.cmd$|\.o$' | xargs filetime | highest -n 50 1126246262 ./drivers/parport/parport.mod.c Thu Sep 8 23:11:02 2005 1126246262 ./drivers/parport/parport_serial.mod.c Thu Sep 8 23:11:02 2005 1126246262 ./drivers/parport/parport_pc.mod.c Thu Sep 8 23:11:02 2005 1126246262 ./drivers/message/i2o/i2o_block.mod.c Thu Sep 8 23:11:02 2005 1126246262 ./drivers/message/i2o/i2o_config.mod.c Thu Sep 8 23:11:02 2005 1126246262 ./drivers/message/i2o/i2o_core.mod.c Thu Sep 8 23:11:02 2005 1126246262 ./drivers/message/i2o/i2o_proc.mod.c Thu Sep 8 23:11:02 2005 1126246262 ./drivers/message/i2o/i2o_scsi.mod.c Thu Sep 8 23:11:02 2005 1126246262 ./drivers/infiniband/hw/mthca/ib_mthca.mod.c Thu Sep 8 23:11:02 2005 1126246262 ./drivers/infiniband/core/ib_cm.mod.c Thu Sep 8 23:11:02 2005 1126246262 ./drivers/infiniband/core/ib_core.mod.c Thu Sep 8 23:11:02 2005 1126246262 ./drivers/infiniband/core/ib_sa.mod.c Thu Sep 8 23:11:02 2005 1126246262 ./drivers/infiniband/core/ib_ucm.mod.c Thu Sep 8 23:11:02 2005 1126246262 ./drivers/infiniband/core/ib_mad.mod.c Thu Sep 8 23:11:02 2005 1126246262 ./drivers/infiniband/core/ib_umad.mod.c Thu Sep 8 23:11:02 2005 1126246262 ./drivers/infiniband/ulp/ipoib/ib_ipoib.mod.c Thu Sep 8 23:11:02 2005 1126246262 ./drivers/atm/firestream.mod.c Thu Sep 8 23:11:02 2005 1126246262 ./drivers/atm/he.mod.c Thu Sep 8 23:11:02 2005 1126246262 ./drivers/atm/horizon.mod.c Thu Sep 8 23:11:02 2005 1126246262 ./drivers/atm/idt77252.mod.c Thu Sep 8 23:11:02 2005 1126246262 ./drivers/atm/suni.mod.c Thu Sep 8 23:11:02 2005 1126246262 ./drivers/atm/ambassador.mod.c Thu Sep 8 23:11:02 2005 1126246262 ./drivers/atm/eni.mod.c Thu Sep 8 23:11:02 2005 1126246262 ./drivers/atm/lanai.mod.c Thu Sep 8 23:11:02 2005 1126246262 ./drivers/atm/atmtcp.mod.c Thu Sep 8 23:11:02 2005 1126246262 ./drivers/video/backlight/lcd.mod.c Thu Sep 8 23:11:02 2005 1126246262 ./drivers/video/backlight/backlight.mod.c Thu Sep 8 23:11:02 2005 1126246262 ./drivers/video/vgastate.mod.c Thu Sep 8 23:11:02 2005 1126246262 ./drivers/video/aty/aty128fb.mod.c Thu Sep 8 23:11:02 2005 1126246262 ./drivers/video/aty/radeonfb.mod.c Thu Sep 8 23:11:02 2005 1126246262 ./drivers/video/aty/atyfb.mod.c Thu Sep 8 23:11:02 2005 1126246262 ./drivers/video/vga16fb.mod.c Thu Sep 8 23:11:02 2005 1126246262 ./drivers/video/matrox/i2c-matroxfb.mod.c Thu Sep 8 23:11:02 2005 1126246262 ./drivers/video/matrox/matroxfb_misc.mod.c Thu Sep 8 23:11:02 2005 1126246262 ./drivers/video/matrox/g450_pll.mod.c Thu Sep 8 23:11:02 2005 1126246262 ./drivers/video/matrox/matroxfb_g450.mod.c Thu Sep 8 23:11:02 2005 1126246262 ./drivers/video/matrox/matroxfb_crtc2.mod.c Thu Sep 8 23:11:02 2005 1126246262 ./drivers/video/matrox/matroxfb_accel.mod.c Thu Sep 8 23:11:02 2005 1126246262 ./drivers/video/matrox/matroxfb_Ti3026.mod.c Thu Sep 8 23:11:02 2005 1126246262 ./drivers/video/matrox/matroxfb_maven.mod.c Thu Sep 8 23:11:02 2005 1126246262 ./drivers/video/matrox/matroxfb_base.mod.c Thu Sep 8 23:11:02 2005 1126246262 ./drivers/video/matrox/matroxfb_DAC1064.mod.c Thu Sep 8 23:11:02 2005 1126246262 ./drivers/video/savage/savagefb.mod.c Thu Sep 8 23:11:02 2005 1126246262 ./drivers/video/tdfxfb.mod.c Thu Sep 8 23:11:02 2005 1126246262 ./drivers/video/cirrusfb.mod.c Thu Sep 8 23:11:02 2005 1126246262 ./drivers/video/sstfb.mod.c Thu Sep 8 23:11:02 2005 1126246262 ./drivers/video/neofb.mod.c Thu Sep 8 23:11:02 2005 1126246262 ./drivers/video/riva/rivafb.mod.c Thu Sep 8 23:11:02 2005 1126246262 ./drivers/video/macmodes.mod.c Thu Sep 8 23:11:02 2005 1126246262 ./drivers/video/kyro/kyrofb.mod.c Thu Sep 8 23:11:02 2005 And the arcmsr driver that came with this mm kernel appears to be version " 1.20.00.07 3/23/2005". - 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
