Re: 3ware 8506-4 hangs while making filesystem

2003-12-12 Thread Andrew Miehs
And a few more details - My working setup SCSI subsystem driver Revision: 1.00 3ware Storage Controller device driver for Linux v1.02.00.036. 3w-: PCI Parity Error: clearing. scsi0 : Found a 3ware Storage Controller at 0xe400, IRQ: 16, P-chip: 1.3 scsi0 : 3ware Storage Controller blk: queue f7e

Re: 3ware 8506-4 hangs while making filesystem

2003-12-12 Thread Tinus Nijmeijers
On Sat, 2003-12-13 at 00:54, Andrew Miehs wrote: > On Dec 13, 2003, at 00:27, Tinus Nijmeijers wrote: > > > > so I'm still hoping it's a driver-version issue, but that would be > > strange considering Andrew Miehs's post, although he mentions he does > > not use a raid-setup (why use an 8506-8(!) a

Re: 3ware 8506-4 hangs while making filesystem

2003-12-12 Thread Andrew Miehs
On Dec 13, 2003, at 00:27, Tinus Nijmeijers wrote: so I'm still hoping it's a driver-version issue, but that would be strange considering Andrew Miehs's post, although he mentions he does not use a raid-setup (why use an 8506-8(!) and not do raid?), maybe that is important. I decided on the 3ware

Re: 3ware 8506-4 hangs while making filesystem

2003-12-12 Thread Tinus Nijmeijers
On Fri, 2003-12-12 at 22:35, Tinus Nijmeijers wrote: > On Fri, 2003-12-12 at 22:26, Michael Loftis wrote: > > Kernel version specifically, and filesystem? Old 2.4 and 2.2 series > > kernels experience this issue..But I find it hard to believe RH9 would > > be seeing it, though stranger thing

Re: 3ware 8506-4 hangs while making filesystem (repost: wrong sender)

2003-12-12 Thread Michael Loftis
There are also a number of firmware updates availableKnown issues also exist with Western Digital HDDs --On Saturday, December 13, 2003 00:28 +0100 Tinus Nijmeijers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Fri, 2003-12-12 at 22:35, Tinus Nijmeijers wrote: On Fri, 2003-12-12 at 22:26, Michael Loftis wr

Re: 3ware 8506-4 hangs while making filesystem (repost: wrong sender)

2003-12-12 Thread Tinus Nijmeijers
On Fri, 2003-12-12 at 22:35, Tinus Nijmeijers wrote: > On Fri, 2003-12-12 at 22:26, Michael Loftis wrote: > > Kernel version specifically, and filesystem? Old 2.4 and 2.2 series > > kernels experience this issue..But I find it hard to believe RH9 would > > be seeing it, though stranger thing

Re: 3ware 8506-4 hangs while making filesystem

2003-12-12 Thread Tinus Nijmeijers
On Sat, 2003-12-13 at 00:18, Jason Lim wrote: > I would suggest you have a look at the 3dm log file in /var/log as this > sounds like an issue in the communication between the linux disk io > buffering subsystem and the 3ware card. However, since you're just > performing the installation, i doubt y

Re: 3ware 8506-4 hangs while making filesystem

2003-12-12 Thread Jason Lim
I would suggest you have a look at the 3dm log file in /var/log as this sounds like an issue in the communication between the linux disk io buffering subsystem and the 3ware card. However, since you're just performing the installation, i doubt you can load up 3dmd during that time (can you?).

Re: 3ware 8506-4 hangs while making filesystem

2003-12-12 Thread Andrew Miehs
And a few more details - My working setup SCSI subsystem driver Revision: 1.00 3ware Storage Controller device driver for Linux v1.02.00.036. 3w-: PCI Parity Error: clearing. scsi0 : Found a 3ware Storage Controller at 0xe400, IRQ: 16, P-chip: 1.3 scsi0 : 3ware Storage Controller blk: queue f7

Re: 3ware 8506-4 hangs while making filesystem

2003-12-12 Thread Tinus Nijmeijers
On Sat, 2003-12-13 at 00:54, Andrew Miehs wrote: > On Dec 13, 2003, at 00:27, Tinus Nijmeijers wrote: > > > > so I'm still hoping it's a driver-version issue, but that would be > > strange considering Andrew Miehs's post, although he mentions he does > > not use a raid-setup (why use an 8506-8(!) a

Re: 3ware 8506-4 hangs while making filesystem

2003-12-12 Thread Andrew Miehs
On Dec 13, 2003, at 00:27, Tinus Nijmeijers wrote: so I'm still hoping it's a driver-version issue, but that would be strange considering Andrew Miehs's post, although he mentions he does not use a raid-setup (why use an 8506-8(!) and not do raid?), maybe that is important. I decided on the 3ware

Re: 3ware 8506-4 hangs while making filesystem

2003-12-12 Thread Andrew Miehs
I have an 8 port 8506-8 (no raid) and 3 250GB Disks running fine on a debian bf24 box. Have formated each disk with ext3 and 1 partition. Have a RAID 5 setup running on SUSE 9 with 600GB Space, and also no problems. Andrew I'm installing a new system (P4C, intel mainboard, 1G RAM, 4x160GB SATA

Re: 3ware 8506-4 hangs while making filesystem

2003-12-12 Thread Tinus Nijmeijers
On Fri, 2003-12-12 at 22:35, Tinus Nijmeijers wrote: > On Fri, 2003-12-12 at 22:26, Michael Loftis wrote: > > Kernel version specifically, and filesystem? Old 2.4 and 2.2 series > > kernels experience this issue..But I find it hard to believe RH9 would > > be seeing it, though stranger thing

Re: 3ware 8506-4 hangs while making filesystem (repost: wrong sender)

2003-12-12 Thread Michael Loftis
There are also a number of firmware updates availableKnown issues also exist with Western Digital HDDs --On Saturday, December 13, 2003 00:28 +0100 Tinus Nijmeijers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Fri, 2003-12-12 at 22:35, Tinus Nijmeijers wrote: On Fri, 2003-12-12 at 22:26, Michael Loftis wr

Re: 3ware 8506-4 hangs while making filesystem (repost: wrong sender)

2003-12-12 Thread Tinus Nijmeijers
On Fri, 2003-12-12 at 22:35, Tinus Nijmeijers wrote: > On Fri, 2003-12-12 at 22:26, Michael Loftis wrote: > > Kernel version specifically, and filesystem? Old 2.4 and 2.2 series > > kernels experience this issue..But I find it hard to believe RH9 would > > be seeing it, though stranger thing

Re: 3ware 8506-4 hangs while making filesystem

2003-12-12 Thread Tinus Nijmeijers
On Sat, 2003-12-13 at 00:18, Jason Lim wrote: > I would suggest you have a look at the 3dm log file in /var/log as this > sounds like an issue in the communication between the linux disk io > buffering subsystem and the 3ware card. However, since you're just > performing the installation, i doubt y

Re: 3ware 8506-4 hangs while making filesystem

2003-12-12 Thread Jason Lim
I would suggest you have a look at the 3dm log file in /var/log as this sounds like an issue in the communication between the linux disk io buffering subsystem and the 3ware card. However, since you're just performing the installation, i doubt you can load up 3dmd during that time (can you?).

Re: 3ware 8506-4 hangs while making filesystem

2003-12-12 Thread Andrew Miehs
I have an 8 port 8506-8 (no raid) and 3 250GB Disks running fine on a debian bf24 box. Have formated each disk with ext3 and 1 partition. Have a RAID 5 setup running on SUSE 9 with 600GB Space, and also no problems. Andrew I'm installing a new system (P4C, intel mainboard, 1G RAM, 4x160GB SAT

Re: 3ware 8506-4 hangs while making filesystem

2003-12-12 Thread Tinus Nijmeijers
On Fri, 2003-12-12 at 22:26, Michael Loftis wrote: > Kernel version specifically, and filesystem? Old 2.4 and 2.2 series > kernels experience this issue..But I find it hard to believe RH9 would > be seeing it, though stranger things have happened. > > --On Friday, December 12, 2003 22:21 +0

Re: 3ware 8506-4 hangs while making filesystem

2003-12-12 Thread Michael Loftis
Kernel version specifically, and filesystem? Old 2.4 and 2.2 series kernels experience this issue..But I find it hard to believe RH9 would be seeing it, though stranger things have happened. --On Friday, December 12, 2003 22:21 +0100 Tinus Nijmeijers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I'm guessin

3ware 8506-4 hangs while making filesystem

2003-12-12 Thread Tinus Nijmeijers
I'm guessing someone here would know about this, so here goes: I'm installing a new system (P4C, intel mainboard, 1G RAM, 4x160GB SATA, 3ware 8506-4, raid 5) and the system freezes completely while formatting a big partition ("unable to handle kernel paging request..." means absolutely nothing to

Re: 3ware 8506-4 hangs while making filesystem

2003-12-12 Thread Tinus Nijmeijers
On Fri, 2003-12-12 at 22:26, Michael Loftis wrote: > Kernel version specifically, and filesystem? Old 2.4 and 2.2 series > kernels experience this issue..But I find it hard to believe RH9 would > be seeing it, though stranger things have happened. > > --On Friday, December 12, 2003 22:21 +0

Re: 3ware 8506-4 hangs while making filesystem

2003-12-12 Thread Michael Loftis
Kernel version specifically, and filesystem? Old 2.4 and 2.2 series kernels experience this issue..But I find it hard to believe RH9 would be seeing it, though stranger things have happened. --On Friday, December 12, 2003 22:21 +0100 Tinus Nijmeijers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I'm guessin

3ware 8506-4 hangs while making filesystem

2003-12-12 Thread Tinus Nijmeijers
I'm guessing someone here would know about this, so here goes: I'm installing a new system (P4C, intel mainboard, 1G RAM, 4x160GB SATA, 3ware 8506-4, raid 5) and the system freezes completely while formatting a big partition ("unable to handle kernel paging request..." means absolutely nothing to

Re: Sendmail & Queuing

2003-12-12 Thread Rich Puhek
Jason McMullen wrote: Good Day All, I'm running into an odd issue. We have 2 servers that act as "front-end" MX hosts running Sendmail. These servers then smarthost all mail back to a main server. This works well at keeping the main server unloaded due to dictionary attacks and whatnot. The pr

Re: Sendmail & Queuing

2003-12-12 Thread Rich Puhek
Jason McMullen wrote: Good Day All, I'm running into an odd issue. We have 2 servers that act as "front-end" MX hosts running Sendmail. These servers then smarthost all mail back to a main server. This works well at keeping the main server unloaded due to dictionary attacks and whatnot. The

Re: Sendmail & Queuing

2003-12-12 Thread Henk . Roose
Jason, On Tue, Dec 02, 2003 at 10:19:07AM -0500, Jason McMullen wrote: > > I'm running into an odd issue. We have 2 servers that act as > "front-end" MX hosts running Sendmail. These servers then smarthost all > mail back to a main server. This works well at keeping the main server > unloaded

Re: Sendmail & Queuing

2003-12-12 Thread Henk . Roose
Jason, On Tue, Dec 02, 2003 at 10:19:07AM -0500, Jason McMullen wrote: > > I'm running into an odd issue. We have 2 servers that act as > "front-end" MX hosts running Sendmail. These servers then smarthost all > mail back to a main server. This works well at keeping the main server > unloaded