Re: IDE DMA Problems...system hangs

2001-02-16 Thread Alan Cox
> I tried the new patches (2.4.1-ac13) and it seemed very stable. After > moving about 50GB of data to the raid5, the system crashed. here is the > syslog... (the system had been up for about 20 hours) Ok so better but not perfect > Feb 15 01:54:01 bertha kernel: hdg: timeout waiting for DMA

Re: IDE DMA Problems...system hangs

2001-02-15 Thread Andre Hedrick
You have junk for cables or they are noe sheilded correctly from crosstalk. But I do not think this is the case. Go check your power-supply for stality and load. Then do a ripple noise test to make sure that underload, it does not cause the clock on the drives to fail. On Thu, 15 Feb 2001, Jas

Re: IDE DMA Problems...system hangs

2001-02-15 Thread Jasmeet Sidhu
>>I've not changed anything related to DMA handling specifically. The current >>-ac does have a fix for a couple of cases where an IDE reset on the promise >>could hang the box dead. That may be the problem. I tried the new patches (2.4.1-ac13) and it seemed very stable. After moving about

Re: IDE DMA Problems...system hangs

2001-02-14 Thread Barry K. Nathan
Alan Cox wrote: >> Feb 13 05:23:27 bertha kernel: hdo: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady >> SeekComplete Error } >> Feb 13 05:23:27 bertha kernel: hdo: dma_intr: error=0x84 { DriveStatusError >> BadCRC } > >You have inadequate cabling. CRC errors are indications of that. Make sure you >are us

Re: IDE DMA Problems...system hangs

2001-02-14 Thread Thomas Dodd
Jasmeet Sidhu wrote: > > Hey guys, > > I am attaching my previous email for additional info. Now I am using > kernel 2.4.1-ac12 and these problems have not gone away. > > Anybody else having these problems with a ide raid 5? > > The Raid 5 performance should also be questioned..here are some

Re: IDE DMA Problems...system hangs

2001-02-14 Thread Alan Cox
> >You will get horribly bad performance off raid5 if you have stripes on both > >hda/hdb or hdc/hdd etc. > > If I am reading this correctly, then by striping on both hda/hdb and > /hdc/hdd you mean that I have two drives per ide channel. In other words, > you think I have a Master and a Slav

Re: IDE DMA Problems...system hangs

2001-02-14 Thread Jasmeet Sidhu
At 08:28 PM 2/14/2001 +, Alan Cox wrote: > > Anybody else having these problems with a ide raid 5? > > The Raid 5 performance should also be questioned..here are some number > > returned by hdparam > >You will get horribly bad performance off raid5 if you have stripes on both >hda/hdb or hdc/

Re: IDE DMA Problems...system hangs

2001-02-14 Thread Alan Cox
> Anybody else having these problems with a ide raid 5? > The Raid 5 performance should also be questioned..here are some number > returned by hdparam You will get horribly bad performance off raid5 if you have stripes on both hda/hdb or hdc/hdd etc. > Feb 13 05:23:27 bertha kernel: hdo: dma_i

IDE DMA Problems...system hangs

2001-02-14 Thread Jasmeet Sidhu
Hey guys, I am attaching my previous email for additional info. Now I am using kernel 2.4.1-ac12 and these problems have not gone away. Anybody else having these problems with a ide raid 5? The Raid 5 performance should also be questioned..here are some number returned by hdparam /dev/hda -