only 1 disk of 5 in port multiplier setup is recognized

2007-11-09 Thread Greg Hennessy 

I have a silicon image 3124 based pci card that is port multiplier
compatible (it works fine under win xp) that is only showing one of 5
attached drives when attached to a Redhat 5 computer, with both
2.6.18-8.1.15.el5 and 2.6.23.1. The SATA link shows as up for the one
recognized drive, the other four drives show the link down.Any
sugguestions as to what may be the problem? I'm using the sata_sil24
driver.

A subset of what I consider the relavant portion of dmesg for the
2.6.18-8.1.15.el5 kernel is:
ahci :00:1f.2: AHCI 0001.0200 32 slots 6 ports 3 Gbps 0x2f impl SATA mode
ahci :00:1f.2: flags: 64bit ncq pm led clo pmp pio slum part ata1: SATA max
UDMA/133 cmd 0xF882C100 ctl 0x0 bmdma 0x0 irq 233
ata2: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0xF882C180 ctl 0x0 bmdma 0x0 irq 233
ata3: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0xF882C200 ctl 0x0 bmdma 0x0 irq 233
ata4: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0xF882C280 ctl 0x0 bmdma 0x0 irq 233
ata5: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0xF882C300 ctl 0x0 bmdma 0x0 irq 233
ata6: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0xF882C380 ctl 0x0 bmdma 0x0 irq 233
scsi0 : ahci
ata1: SATA link up 3.0 Gbps (SStatus 123 SControl 300)
ata1.00: ATA-7, max UDMA/133, 488281250 sectors: LBA48 NCQ (depth 31/32)
ata1.00: ata1: dev 0 multi count 0
ata1.00: configured for UDMA/133
scsi1 : ahci
ata2: SATA link up 3.0 Gbps (SStatus 123 SControl 300)
ata2.00: ATA-7, max UDMA/133, 488281250 sectors: LBA48 NCQ (depth 31/32)
ata2.00: ata2: dev 0 multi count 0
ata2.00: configured for UDMA/133
scsi2 : ahci
ata3: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 300)
ata3.00: ATAPI, max UDMA/100
ata3.00: configured for UDMA/100
scsi3 : ahci
ata4: SATA link down (SStatus 4 SControl 300)
scsi4 : ahci
ata5: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 0)
scsi5 : ahci
ata6: SATA link down (SStatus 4 SControl 300)
Vendor: ATA   Model: Hitachi HDT72502  Rev: V5DO
Type:   Direct-Access  ANSI SCSI revision: 05
SCSI device sda: 488281250 512-byte hdwr sectors (25 MB)
sda: Write Protect is off
sda: Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00
SCSI device sda: drive cache: write back
SCSI device sda: 488281250 512-byte hdwr sectors (25 MB)
sda: Write Protect is off
sda: Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00
SCSI device sda: drive cache: write back
sda: sda1
sd 0:0:0:0: Attached scsi disk sda
Vendor: ATA   Model: Hitachi HDT72502  Rev: V5DO
Type:   Direct-Access  ANSI SCSI revision: 05
SCSI device sdb: 488281250 512-byte hdwr sectors (25 MB)
sdb: Write Protect is off
sdb: Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00
SCSI device sdb: drive cache: write back
SCSI device sdb: 488281250 512-byte hdwr sectors (25 MB)
sdb: Write Protect is off
sdb: Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00
SCSI device sdb: drive cache: write back
sdb: sdb1
sd 1:0:0:0: Attached scsi disk sdb
Vendor: PBDS  Model: DVD+-RW DH-16W1S  Rev: 2D14
Type:   CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 05
sata_sil24 :03:02.0: version 0.3
ACPI: PCI Interrupt :03:02.0[A] -> GSI 18 (level, low) -> IRQ 217
ata7: SATA max UDMA/100 cmd 0xF884 ctl 0x0 bmdma 0x0 irq 217
ata8: SATA max UDMA/100 cmd 0xF8842000 ctl 0x0 bmdma 0x0 irq 217
ata9: SATA max UDMA/100 cmd 0xF8844000 ctl 0x0 bmdma 0x0 irq 217
ata10: SATA max UDMA/100 cmd 0xF8846000 ctl 0x0 bmdma 0x0 irq 217
scsi6 : sata_sil24
ata7: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 300)
scsi7 : sata_sil24
ata8: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 300)
scsi8 : sata_sil24
ata9: SATA link up 3.0 Gbps (SStatus 123 SControl 300)
ata9.00: ATA-7, max UDMA/133, 1953525168 sectors: LBA48 NCQ (depth 31/32)
ata9.00: ata9: dev 0 multi count 16
ata9.00: configured for UDMA/100
scsi9 : sata_sil24
ata10: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 300)
Vendor: ATA   Model: Hitachi HDS72101  Rev: GKAO
Type:   Direct-Access  ANSI SCSI revision: 05
SCSI device sdc: 1953525168 512-byte hdwr sectors (1000205 MB)
sdc: Write Protect is off
sdc: Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00
SCSI device sdc: drive cache: write back
SCSI device sdc: 1953525168 512-byte hdwr sectors (1000205 MB)
sdc: Write Protect is off
sdc: Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00
SCSI device sdc: drive cache: write back
sdc: sdc1
sd 8:0:0:0: Attached scsi disk sdc

[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# fdisk -l

Disk /dev/sda: 250.0 GB, 2500 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30394 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
 Device Boot  Start End  Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1   *   1   30394   244139773+  83  Linux

Disk /dev/sdb: 250.0 GB, 2500 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30394 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

 Device Boot  Start End  Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sdb1   1   30394   244139773+  83  Linux

WARNING: GPT (GUID Partition Table) detected on '/dev/sdc'! The util fdisk doesn
't support GPT. Use GNU Parted.


Disk /dev/sdc: 1000.2 GB, 1000204886016 bytes
256 heads, 63 sectors/track, 121126 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16128 * 512 = 8257536 bytes

 Device Boot  Start End  Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sdc1

Re: Requirement: swap = RAM x 2.5 ??

2001-06-06 Thread Greg Hennessy 

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Richard Gooch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Swap is "extra space to be used if we have it" and nothing else.
> 
> Sure. But Linux still works without swap. It's just that if you *do*
> have swap, it works best with 2* RAM.

There is a large difference between saying Linux works best with
2*RAM, and Linux requires 2*RAM.

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Dell smp won't boot

2000-10-13 Thread Greg Hennessy 

One of my dual cpu dell server running 2.2.15 has stopped booting.
It gets part way through the boot process and rints

wait_oin_bh, cpu 1
irq: 0 [0 0]
bh: 1 [1 0]
<[c010aefd]> <[c0119ecf]> <[c011a029]> <[c0113ad0]> <[c010933c]>

and repeats. Might this be a software problem, or should I simply call
in for a tech support person to schedule a site visit.

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Re: 2T for i386

2000-08-31 Thread Greg Hennessy 

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Ricky Beam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> If you're building a 2TB array, you're not gonna do it with bloody IDE
> hardware. (I hope you're joking.)

The big problem with IDE is trying to find raid 5 that works with
8 or more disks, raid 5 with 4 disks wastes too much. And the 18 inch
cable lengths make it hard to house the disks. At least with LVD you
can have long cables.




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