Is it at all possible this could be a kernel compiler issue? I built the kernel with the latest gcc, which is 2.95.2-3.
If no answer by Friday I'll go to to the vger kernel list. Adam C Powell wrote: > Greetings, > > About two months ago, I built 2.2.12 with SMP and RAID 5 for my > dual-Celeron (Abit BP6) system with four IDE drives. I booted, and it > fsck'd the arrays just fine, and mounted all the non-RAID partitions, > but when it went to mount the RAID partitions, it froze. > > I heard some reports about a race in 2.2.12 IDE, so I waited for 2.2.13, > which I finally built yesterday, same result! > > How can it fsck the array successfully, and then fail to mount it?? > > So now I once again have to go back to kernel-image-2.2.10, and ckraid > --fix, which takes seven hours on my two partitions. Very annoying, and > discouraging of future attempts to try another SMP kernel... > > What on earth could be wrong? > > Here's the RAID info as printed during ckraid --fix: > > checking raid level 5 set /dev/md0 > MD ID: a92b4efc > Conforms to MD version: 0.36.4 > Raid set ID: b7ad977a > Creation time: Tue Sep 7 18:01:58 1999 > Update time: Sat Nov 27 20:56:07 1999 > State: 0 > Raid level: 5 > Individual disk size: 5120 MB (5243008 kB) > Chunk size: 32 kB > Parity algorithm: 2 (left-symmetric) > Total number of disks: 4 > Number of raid disks: 4 > Number of active disks: 4 > Number of working disks: 4 > Number of failed disks: 0 > Number of spare disks: 0 > > Disk 0: raid_disk 0, state: 6 (operational, active, sync) > Disk 1: raid_disk 1, state: 6 (operational, active, sync) > Disk 2: raid_disk 2, state: 6 (operational, active, sync) > Disk 3: raid_disk 3, state: 6 (operational, active, sync) > array size: 1572902kB=0xC0060000 > > It's running now for ~2:15 to clean up this partition, then will go > another 5 or so hours for a 30 GB partition on /dev/md1 > > Unfortunately, I don't have my kernel config now- it's trapped in the > sick machine. :-( I built Raid 5 as a module, and modconf has it in its > list. But that should be installing properly, since it is fscking, > right? > > If I get help here, I'll try once more tomorrow, twice if I can start > early. Otherwise, that second processor- and the nice dual-Celeron MB- > will be a total waste. :-( Adam Powell http://lyre.mit.edu/~powell/ Thomas B. King Assistant Professor of Materials Engineering 77 Massachusetts Ave. Rm. 4-117 Phone (617) 452-2086 Cambridge, MA 02139 USA Fax (617) 253-5418