Hello, Iīve set up a Debian-2.2-System and built a Kernel-2.4.0-test11 on it. Hardwareconfiguration : athlon-850MHz, Asus-A7V (promise ultra-100 on board), additional promise ultra-100-card. 3 IBM DTLA 307045 Disks only one at each IDE-channel. The three ata-100 disks should become a raid-5. Additional small IDE boot-disk with the Debian-system. Kernel-messages at boot-time looked fine. After installing a raid5-array with 3 45MB-Partitions(fd) on 3 IBM DTLA 307045-Disks, i tried to boot the system. The first 2 times the kernel crashed while outputting an oops-message. I know that itīs important to send you the exact message, but i didnīt expect that it would go away after the second attempt and now i just donīt have it. SORRY. The third attempt to boot succeeded, BUT the raid array couldnīt start: log of boot-process: Scan SMP from c00f0000 for 65536 bytes. Scan SMP from c0000000 for 4096 bytes. On node 0 totalpages: 32748 zone(0): 4096 pages. zone(1): 28652 pages. zone(2): 0 pages. mapped APIC to ffffe000 (01222000) Kernel command line: BOOT_IMAGE=Linux ro root=303 BOOT_FILE=/boot/linux-2.4.0 Initializing CPU#0 Detected 857.660 MHz processor. Console: colour VGA+ 80x25 Calibrating delay loop... 1710.49 BogoMIPS Memory: 126516k/130992k available (1378k kernel code, 4080k reserved, 91k data, 188k init, 0k highmem) Dentry-cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 5, 131072 bytes) Buffer-cache hash table entries: 4096 (order: 2, 16384 bytes) Page-cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 131072 bytes) Inode-cache hash table entries: 8192 (order: 4, 65536 bytes) VFS: Diskquotas version dquot_6.4.0 initialized CPU: Before vendor init, caps: 0183f9ff c1c7f9ff 00000000, vendor = 2 CPU: L1 I Cache: 64K (64 bytes/line), D cache 64K (64 bytes/line) CPU: L2 Cache: 256K (64 bytes/line) CPU: After vendor init, caps: 0183f9ff c1c7f9ff 00000000 00000000 CPU: After generic, caps: 0183f9ff c1c7f9ff 00000000 00000000 CPU: Common caps: 0183f9ff c1c7f9ff 00000000 00000000 CPU: AMD Athlon(tm) Processor stepping 02 Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK. POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX mtrr: v1.37 (20001109) Richard Gooch ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) mtrr: detected mtrr type: Intel PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xf10f0, last bus=1 PCI: Using configuration type 1 PCI: Probing PCI hardware Unknown bridge resource 0: assuming transparent Unknown bridge resource 1: assuming transparent Unknown bridge resource 2: assuming transparent PCI: Using IRQ router VIA [1106/0686] at 00:04.0 Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.4 Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039 Starting kswapd v1.8 Detected PS/2 Mouse Port. pty: 256 Unix98 ptys configured RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 16384K size 1024 blocksize loop: enabling 8 loop devices Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 6.31 ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx VP_IDE: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 21 VP_IDE: chipset revision 16 VP_IDE: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later ide0: BM-DMA at 0xd800-0xd807, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:pio ide1: BM-DMA at 0xd808-0xd80f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:DMA PDC20267: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 58 PDC20267: chipset revision 2 PDC20267: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later PDC20267: (U)DMA Burst Bit ENABLED Primary PCI Mode Secondary PCI Mode. ide2: BM-DMA at 0x9000-0x9007, BIOS settings: hde:pio, hdf:pio ide3: BM-DMA at 0x9008-0x900f, BIOS settings: hdg:pio, hdh:pio PDC20265: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 88 PDC20265: chipset revision 2 PDC20265: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later PDC20265: (U)DMA Burst Bit ENABLED Primary PCI Mode Secondary PCI Mode. ide4: BM-DMA at 0x7000-0x7007, BIOS settings: hdi:pio, hdj:pio ide5: BM-DMA at 0x7008-0x700f, BIOS settings: hdk:pio, hdl:pio hda: Conner Peripherals 425MB - CFS425A, ATA DISK drive hdc: OnStream DI-30, ATAPI TAPE drive hdd: ATAPI CDROM, ATAPI CDROM drive hde: IBM-DTLA-307045, ATA DISK drive hdg: IBM-DTLA-307045, ATA DISK drive hdi: IBM-DTLA-307045, ATA DISK drive ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14 ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15 ide2 at 0xa400-0xa407,0xa002 on irq 11 ide3 at 0x9800-0x9807,0x9402 on irq 11 ide4 at 0x8400-0x8407,0x8002 on irq 11 hda: 832288 sectors (426 MB) w/64KiB Cache, CHS=839/16/62 hde: 90069840 sectors (46116 MB) w/1916KiB Cache, CHS=89355/16/63, UDMA(100) hdg: 90069840 sectors (46116 MB) w/1916KiB Cache, CHS=89355/16/63, UDMA(100) hdi: 90069840 sectors (46116 MB) w/1916KiB Cache, CHS=89355/16/63, UDMA(100) hdd: ATAPI 24X CD-ROM drive, 120kB Cache, DMA Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.11 ide-tape: hdc <-> ht0: OnStream DI-30 rev 1.08 ide-tape: hdc <-> ht0: 990KBps, 64*32kB buffer, 10208kB pipeline, 60ms tDSC, DMA Partition check: hda: hda1 hda2 hda3 hde: hde1 hde2 hdg: hdg1 hdg2 hdi: hdi1 hdi2 Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077 Serial driver version 5.02 (2000-08-09) with MANY_PORTS SHARE_IRQ SERIAL_PCI enabled ttyS00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A ttyS01 at 0x02f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A ne2k-pci.c:v1.02 10/19/2000 D. Becker/P. Gortmaker http://www.scyld.com/network/ne2k-pci.html eth0: RealTek RTL-8029 found at 0x8800, IRQ 12, 52:54:05:FE:C1:C5. usb.c: registered new driver hub usb.c: registered new driver usblp md driver 0.90.0 MAX_MD_DEVS=256, MAX_REAL=12 raid5 personality registered md.c: sizeof(mdp_super_t) = 4096 autodetecting RAID arrays (read) hde2's sb offset: 45025280 [events: 00000002] (read) hdg2's sb offset: 45025280 [events: 00000002] (read) hdi2's sb offset: 45025280 [events: 00000004] autorun ... considering hdi2 ... adding hdi2 ... adding hdg2 ... adding hde2 ... created md0 bind<hde2,1> bind<hdg2,2> bind<hdi2,3> running: <hdi2><hdg2><hde2> now! hdi2's event counter: 00000004 hdg2's event counter: 00000002 hde2's event counter: 00000002 md: superblock update time inconsistency -- using the most recent one freshest: hdi2 md: kicking non-fresh hdg2 from array! unbind<hdg2,2> export_rdev(hdg2) md: kicking non-fresh hde2 from array! unbind<hde2,1> export_rdev(hde2) md0: former device hde2 is unavailable, removing from array! md0: former device hdg2 is unavailable, removing from array! md0: max total readahead window set to 1024k md0: 2 data-disks, max readahead per data-disk: 512k raid5: device hdi2 operational as raid disk 2 raid5: not enough operational devices for md0 (2/3 failed) RAID5 conf printout: --- rd:3 wd:1 fd:2 disk 0, s:0, o:0, n:0 rd:0 us:1 dev:[dev 00:00] disk 1, s:0, o:0, n:1 rd:1 us:1 dev:[dev 00:00] disk 2, s:0, o:1, n:2 rd:2 us:1 dev:hdi2 disk 3, s:0, o:0, n:0 rd:0 us:0 dev:[dev 00:00] disk 4, s:0, o:0, n:0 rd:0 us:0 dev:[dev 00:00] disk 5, s:0, o:0, n:0 rd:0 us:0 dev:[dev 00:00] disk 6, s:0, o:0, n:0 rd:0 us:0 dev:[dev 00:00] disk 7, s:0, o:0, n:0 rd:0 us:0 dev:[dev 00:00] disk 8, s:0, o:0, n:0 rd:0 us:0 dev:[dev 00:00] disk 9, s:0, o:0, n:0 rd:0 us:0 dev:[dev 00:00] disk 10, s:0, o:0, n:0 rd:0 us:0 dev:[dev 00:00] disk 11, s:0, o:0, n:0 rd:0 us:0 dev:[dev 00:00] disk 12, s:0, o:0, n:0 rd:0 us:0 dev:[dev 00:00] disk 13, s:0, o:0, n:0 rd:0 us:0 dev:[dev 00:00] disk 14, s:0, o:0, n:0 rd:0 us:0 dev:[dev 00:00] disk 15, s:0, o:0, n:0 rd:0 us:0 dev:[dev 00:00] disk 16, s:0, o:0, n:0 rd:0 us:0 dev:[dev 00:00] disk 17, s:0, o:0, n:0 rd:0 us:0 dev:[dev 00:00] disk 18, s:0, o:0, n:0 rd:0 us:0 dev:[dev 00:00] disk 19, s:0, o:0, n:0 rd:0 us:0 dev:[dev 00:00] disk 20, s:0, o:0, n:0 rd:0 us:0 dev:[dev 00:00] disk 21, s:0, o:0, n:0 rd:0 us:0 dev:[dev 00:00] disk 22, s:0, o:0, n:0 rd:0 us:0 dev:[dev 00:00] disk 23, s:0, o:0, n:0 rd:0 us:0 dev:[dev 00:00] disk 24, s:0, o:0, n:0 rd:0 us:0 dev:[dev 00:00] disk 25, s:0, o:0, n:0 rd:0 us:0 dev:[dev 00:00] disk 26, s:0, o:0, n:0 rd:0 us:0 dev:[dev 00:00] raid5: failed to run raid set md0 pers->run() failed ... do_md_run() returned -22 md0 stopped. unbind<hdi2,0> export_rdev(hdi2) ... autorun DONE. raid5: measuring checksumming speed 8regs : 1098.042 MB/sec 32regs : 1159.383 MB/sec pII_mmx : 2007.108 MB/sec p5_mmx : 2527.554 MB/sec raid5: using function: p5_mmx (2527.554 MB/sec) NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0 IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP IP: routing cache hash table of 512 buckets, 4Kbytes TCP: Hash tables configured (established 8192 bind 8192) NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMP for Linux NET4.0. VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly. Freeing unused kernel memory: 188k freed Adding Swap: 20332k swap-space (priority -1) autodetecting the raid seems to work, but starting doesnīt. This looks to me like the kernel kicks 2 from 3 disks in the raid5-array because of a kind of timestamp? and then the whole array isn`t recoverable anymore. I donīt know anything about that update time, but may it be better to ignore it in advance to be able to keep the array running ? The same thing happens when i try to start the raid manually with raidstart /dev/md0. In the log above you can see, that the settings for the three ibm-disks (connected with 80-pin cables) are pio and not DMA! This log was created at the first time the boot-process succeeded after installing the raid. After this, i booted the machine several times and the settings were DMA, which is correct. Now the system is booting well, but the raid5 gives up every time. The Raid-Disks contain no data yet, so iīll try to make the raid array again. But i thought this case could be important for the Kernel-Developers. Next time i have a kernel-crash i WILL write down the output. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/