"Jason A. Diegmueller" wrote:
>
> : > : 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 ...
Well, I jumped from 2.2.10+SMP to 2.2.12+SMP. I've never used RAID
and never got a lock/oops ...
Viet
