> For what it's worth, this particular box is NOT running any IDE
> drives. It has (4) 2.1gb SCSI drives on an aic78xx adapter.
>
> The machine itself is an old HP Netserver LXe Pro with (2)
> processors (only one running now, obviously) and 192MB of RAM.
>
> I can't switch to 2.2.13pre11-non-RAID, because my root is a
> RAID-5'd md on this particular machine. If I dropped RAID,
> obviouslly, I'd have a useless machine. [smile]
Wow, root raid5 is bold ;). My own personal experience with raid5 is that
I've had to reconstruct it a couple of times, due to various (no raid)
problems. I do hope you have a rescue disk that includes all of the raid
utilities including mkraid, and an up to date copy of your raidtab.
Anyway, yes I do understand that you didn't have ide devices. Alan Cox is
now looking for any kind of reports of instability... it doesn't have to
relate to our own problems, though there is a possibility it still does.
In any case, if you had the opportunity to run 2.2.13pre11 (even with raid)
and SMP and report a lockup to linux-kernel the world would be slightly
better off
Tom
