Package: kernel-image-2.6.8-3-k7 Version: 2.6.8-16sarge6 Severity: critical Justification: causes serious data loss
The system has built in an Adaptec 2400A RAID controller with two 80 GB disks attached which are configured as RAID 1. The controller is handled by the dpt_i2o module. In this configuration everything works fine. (The RAID array is exclusively used for data storage [samba server], the operating system is installed on a separate single IDE disk which is attached to the motherboard's IDE controller). When I attach two 500 GB disks to the controller instead of the 80 GB disks and configure them as RAID 1 array, the problems begin. Partitioning the array with cfdisk works, building the file system with mkfs.ext3 or mkreiserfs works, too. But copying data with cp to the partition causes cp to hang after some time and some files were copied. With an other console, changing to the directory in which the partition on the array is mounted causes this console to hang, too. 'shutdown -h now' (again in an other console) displays the shutdown-message, but the system doesn't do a shutdown. After a hard reset, it depends on the file system, whether there are data on the array or not. With ext3 there are none of the copied files on the array, with reiserfs there are the files on the array which were copied before cp hung. I tried to google for the problem and found a post on google groups which seems to be related to the problem. The message-id is <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> With the 2.4.27-2-386 kernel, everything seems to work, even with the 500 GB RAID array. -- System Information: Debian Release: 3.1 Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.8-3-k7 Locale: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] (charmap=ISO-8859-15) Versions of packages kernel-image-2.6.8-3-k7 depends on: ii coreutils [fileutils] 5.2.1-2 The GNU core utilities ii initrd-tools 0.1.81.1 tools to create initrd image for p ii module-init-tools 3.2-pre1-2 tools for managing Linux kernel mo -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
