: > : A number of us are having similar problems currently with
: > : 2.2.1? with many ide disks and SMP. It is probably worth
: > : sending linux-kernel a summary of your difficulty, as the
: > : topic is being discussed. What Alan would really like is
: > : if you could run 2.2.13pre11 without the raid code, and get a
: > : similar lockup... perhaps just by keying heavy disk activity
: > : on each disk at the same time.. at least this works for the
: > : many-ide-SMP lockups (something like dd if=/dev/sdX of=/dev/null
: > : count=500000 & running on each drive at the same time.
: >
: > 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.
:
: dunno if that's gonna help you a bit or not, but I happen to
: have exactly (4) 4.3gb SCSI drives on an aic78xxx ( the Ultra Wide
: version) too, on an SMP box (2.2.12). however, I boot on an IDE
: drive, and uses no RAID.
:
: This one config is working fine.
:
: I'd say, it's the raid thingy, then ...
Did you have any troubles with 2.2.11? I upgraded to 2.2.12 AND
dropped SMP support all at the same time. Just wondering ..
I also have an eepro100 in this thing, and a POS Cirrus Logic
integrated video adapter (he does have X running come to think of
it, but rarely uses it, and it never locks up while he's at the
console).
Then again, it's been up 7.5 days now that we're up to 2.2.12 and
no SMP. Maybe I'll recompile 2.2.12 with SMP mid-next-week and
see if we're back to locking up ...
::: Jason A. Diegmueller
::: Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer
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::: Systems Administrator, Bertke Systems Innovations
