Re: Linux Software RAID is really RAID?

2007-07-12 Thread Johny Mail list
2007/7/4, Mark Lord [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Tejun Heo wrote: Mark Lord wrote: I believe he said it was ICH5 (different post/thread). My observation on ICH5 is that if one unplugs a drive, then the chipset/cpu locks up hard when toggling SRST in the EH code. Specifically, it locks up at the

Re: Linux Software RAID is really RAID?

2007-07-04 Thread Alan Cox
A hard(ware) lockup, not software. That's why Intel says ICH5 doesn't do hotplug. OIC. I don't think there's much left to do from the driver side then. Or is there any workaround? I'm not familiar with the ICH5 SATA side but on the PATA side we also need to run code to fix up chips on a

Re: Linux Software RAID is really RAID?

2007-07-04 Thread Mark Lord
Tejun Heo wrote: Mark Lord wrote: I believe he said it was ICH5 (different post/thread). My observation on ICH5 is that if one unplugs a drive, then the chipset/cpu locks up hard when toggling SRST in the EH code. Specifically, it locks up at the instruction which restores SRST back to the

Re: Linux Software RAID is really RAID?

2007-07-03 Thread Mark Lord
Johny Mail list wrote: 2007/7/3, Tejun Heo [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Brad Campbell wrote: Johny Mail list wrote: Hello list, I have a little question about software RAID on Linux. I have installed Software Raid on all my SC1425 servers DELL by believing that the md raid was a strong driver. And

Re: Linux Software RAID is really RAID?

2007-07-03 Thread Tejun Heo
Mark Lord wrote: I believe he said it was ICH5 (different post/thread). My observation on ICH5 is that if one unplugs a drive, then the chipset/cpu locks up hard when toggling SRST in the EH code. Specifically, it locks up at the instruction which restores SRST back to the non-asserted

Re: Linux Software RAID is really RAID?

2007-06-27 Thread Johny Mail list
2007/6/26, Brad Campbell [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Johny Mail list wrote: Hello list, I have a little question about software RAID on Linux. I have installed Software Raid on all my SC1425 servers DELL by believing that the md raid was a strong driver. And recently i make some test on a server and