You might want to check that the drives aren't faulty. I just had two Maxtor 160GB disks fail and it turns out they were faulty. Download Powermax from Maxtor's web site and test the drives. Justin. ----- Original Message ----- From: "zeist" <zeist@comedia.it> To: <psyche-list@redhat.com> Sent: Friday, January 17, 2003 9:55 PM Subject: RAID LargeDisks and UATA Serious Problems > Greetings > > I'm facing serious problems with a Raid partition on UATA133 bus. > The box is a dual athlon MP with asus MB and REDHAT 8.0. > The entire system except /home stand on two IBM 80Gb disks (on uata 100 > bus) in Raid 1 with ext3. > The /home partition stand on 3 Maxtor 120Gb "diamondmax plus 9" uata133 in > Raid 5 with ext3. > The system ran fine with 2.4.18-18.8.0smp official redhat kernel and the 3 > Maxtor disks attached to and external Adaptec controller based on > highpoint hpt370 chipset (note, i used just the ide bus functionality, > since Raid was software). > When i switched to 2.4.19 vanilla kernel i started to have problems, first > of all it seem that the system with vanilla kernels can't deactivate swap > in logical volume, leaving just an "invalid argument" error when i use > swapoff command, but the real problem is that i started to experience > regular FileSystem corrupitons (just on /home) with lots of data lost in > reconstructions and fsck. > At first i thought about problems with ext3 and compatibility between RH > 8.0 and vanilla kernels (i also wrote about this on ext3-users list) but > don't seem the case. > Now i've replaced the highpoint card with a Maxtor pci card ata133 based > on promise chipset 20269. > I also tested vanilla 2.4.20 with ext3 patches. > Theres nothing to do, problems persist, not only during high i/o > throughtput, but also when i start to store large data on partition. > I fell back to 2.4.18-18.8.0smp I didn't install the promise patch since > it seem to me that is already included in rh kernel) without succes, it > seem that when the data on disks reach about 30% of capacity troubles and corruptions > manifests. > I also thinking about basic design errors, since i have 3 uata 133 disks > attached to a single pci controller all with dma access activated, > somebody can confirm that this could represent a bandwith problem? > When i try to use badblock or other hardware diagnostics tools based on > badblock command the system freezes and at reboot i need to run fsck > manually (with new data corruption and loss). > Things are becoming nasty, since i would like to use reliable IDE system > for low profile File Servers at work. > I would like to ask if there are know issues about linux kernel, new > Large ide disks and uata 100/133 bus, since it seem to me that many other > people are experiencing problems like this. > > Thanks in Advance for your help. > Nicola Ragozzino > > - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ---------------------- > `The true value of a human being can be found in the degree to which he has attained > liberation from the self` > - ----------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------- > GPG/PGP keys available on key-servers > [RSA 2048] PGP Key fingerprint = 82 78 5A 58 8D E0 31 C9 B4 9D 92 04 0D F6 C1 82 > [DSA 4096] GPG Key fingerprint = D5 84 BA F3 24 64 7E B6 97 D0 1A 3B F0 40 89 72 E2 CE 1F C5 > - ----------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------- > > > > -- > Psyche-list mailing list > Psyche-list@redhat.com > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
