The machine is an HP ML150 3.06, Xeon, 512MB of RAM; current bios is 1.51. AIC-8130 is the sata card.
Debian installs OK. Updated to linux-image-2.6.16-2-686. It
automatically loads sata_mv (w/o /etc/modules).
Three (3) WD 76GB 10K drives, organized into mdadm Raid5 -- no problem.
Three (3) volumes created under lvm/VG1 (10GB, 10GB & 30GB) -- no
problem.
Each volume is formatted for ext3:
mke2fs -E stride=16 -j -O dir_index -v /dev/VG1/data
tune2fs -c 0 -i 0 /dev/VG1/data
To this point, everything appears normal. Test reading, writing,
deleting from filesystems succeed.
Then, reboot -- and first sign of trouble. I am remote to this box;
but, my associate says that system boot up hangs with LVM initialization
on console. Power it off; restart; and system comes up. NOTE: This is
repeatable: every other boot up hangs; alternating boot ups succeed ;<
Once system is up, functioning, and filesystems tested; then, we copy
data to one filesystem at a time. Every single time, the entire system
locks up within minutes !?!?
Google shows several people with similar problems early this year. The
sata_mv driver is called "experimental". I have not found a solution;
nor a workaround. Is there some other driver for the Marvel sata
chipset? Apparently, Suse uses aar81xx; but, the version I found does
NOT load on this Debian box ...
What am I missing?
What do you think?
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helices
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