A few weeks ago I posted a problem I was having with my machine rebooting whenever I wrote to an md array (details below). The problem turned out to be using the SiI 3132 2-port SATA card in the PCIe x16 slot of the ga-ma74gm-s2 motherboard. I contacted Gigabyte and they said that the x16 slot is designed for *video only*. So just a heads-up if you plan to use this board for a low-power file server. -Matt On Mon, Feb 02, 2009 at 10:14:50PM -0600, Matt Garman wrote: > > I have two four disk raid5 arrays on Ubuntu Linux 8.04 (AMD64). > Both are using XFS for the filesystem. > > $ uname -a > Linux septictank 2.6.24-19-generic #1 SMP Wed Aug 20 17:53:40 UTC > 2008 x86_64 GNU/Linux > > I recently replaced the motherboard and processor: switched from an > Intel Q35 motherboard + E5200 CPU to a Gigabyte GA-MA74GM-S2 > motherboard (AMD 740G/SB700) with an 4850e CPU. > > I ran a ton of benchmarks under the old configuration, and intend to > do the same with the new hardware. (See my previous posts regarding > SATA/southbridge performance.) > > Anyway, four times now, when I run bonnie++ (with my current working > directory on one of the md arrays), the computer immediately > reboots. > > I saw this happen twice while I logged in remotely; I did it again > from the console to see if there are any useful error messages. > > It flashed too quickly, but the reboot looked like it happened > immediately after bonnie++ started "Writing intelligently...". > > There are no useful indications in the system logs. > > Every time this reboot happens, it forces a rebuild of the md array. > I have only tried it on the one array (which is empty, so I can > afford to have the rebuild fail). I'm afraid to try it on the other > one until I figure this out. > > For what it's worth the md device in question is four Western > Digital 7500AAKS 750 GB 7200 rpm SATA drives. The controller is not > the onboard SATA, but actually two 2-port PCIe SATA cards. > > Anyone seen anything like this or have any ideas where I can start > looking for more information? > > Thanks! > Matt > -- 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
