Re: IDE DMA Problems...system hangs

2001-02-16 Thread Alan Cox
> I tried the new patches (2.4.1-ac13) and it seemed very stable. After > moving about 50GB of data to the raid5, the system crashed. here is the > syslog... (the system had been up for about 20 hours) Ok so better but not perfect > Feb 15 01:54:01 bertha kernel: hdg: timeout waiting for

Re: IDE DMA Problems...system hangs

2001-02-16 Thread Alan Cox
I tried the new patches (2.4.1-ac13) and it seemed very stable. After moving about 50GB of data to the raid5, the system crashed. here is the syslog... (the system had been up for about 20 hours) Ok so better but not perfect Feb 15 01:54:01 bertha kernel: hdg: timeout waiting for DMA

Re: IDE DMA Problems...system hangs

2001-02-15 Thread Andre Hedrick
You have junk for cables or they are noe sheilded correctly from crosstalk. But I do not think this is the case. Go check your power-supply for stality and load. Then do a ripple noise test to make sure that underload, it does not cause the clock on the drives to fail. On Thu, 15 Feb 2001,

Re: IDE DMA Problems...system hangs

2001-02-15 Thread Jasmeet Sidhu
>>I've not changed anything related to DMA handling specifically. The current >>-ac does have a fix for a couple of cases where an IDE reset on the promise >>could hang the box dead. That may be the problem. I tried the new patches (2.4.1-ac13) and it seemed very stable. After moving about

Re: IDE DMA Problems...system hangs

2001-02-15 Thread Jasmeet Sidhu
I've not changed anything related to DMA handling specifically. The current -ac does have a fix for a couple of cases where an IDE reset on the promise could hang the box dead. That may be the problem. I tried the new patches (2.4.1-ac13) and it seemed very stable. After moving about 50GB

Re: IDE DMA Problems...system hangs

2001-02-15 Thread Andre Hedrick
You have junk for cables or they are noe sheilded correctly from crosstalk. But I do not think this is the case. Go check your power-supply for stality and load. Then do a ripple noise test to make sure that underload, it does not cause the clock on the drives to fail. On Thu, 15 Feb 2001,

Re: IDE DMA Problems...system hangs

2001-02-14 Thread Barry K. Nathan
Alan Cox wrote: >> Feb 13 05:23:27 bertha kernel: hdo: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady >> SeekComplete Error } >> Feb 13 05:23:27 bertha kernel: hdo: dma_intr: error=0x84 { DriveStatusError >> BadCRC } > >You have inadequate cabling. CRC errors are indications of that. Make sure you >are

Re: IDE DMA Problems...system hangs

2001-02-14 Thread Thomas Dodd
Jasmeet Sidhu wrote: > > Hey guys, > > I am attaching my previous email for additional info. Now I am using > kernel 2.4.1-ac12 and these problems have not gone away. > > Anybody else having these problems with a ide raid 5? > > The Raid 5 performance should also be questioned..here are some

Re: IDE DMA Problems...system hangs

2001-02-14 Thread Alan Cox
> >You will get horribly bad performance off raid5 if you have stripes on both > >hda/hdb or hdc/hdd etc. > > If I am reading this correctly, then by striping on both hda/hdb and > /hdc/hdd you mean that I have two drives per ide channel. In other words, > you think I have a Master and a

Re: IDE DMA Problems...system hangs

2001-02-14 Thread Jasmeet Sidhu
At 08:28 PM 2/14/2001 +, Alan Cox wrote: > > Anybody else having these problems with a ide raid 5? > > The Raid 5 performance should also be questioned..here are some number > > returned by hdparam > >You will get horribly bad performance off raid5 if you have stripes on both >hda/hdb or

Re: IDE DMA Problems...system hangs

2001-02-14 Thread Alan Cox
> Anybody else having these problems with a ide raid 5? > The Raid 5 performance should also be questioned..here are some number > returned by hdparam You will get horribly bad performance off raid5 if you have stripes on both hda/hdb or hdc/hdd etc. > Feb 13 05:23:27 bertha kernel: hdo:

Re: IDE DMA Problems...system hangs

2001-02-14 Thread Alan Cox
Anybody else having these problems with a ide raid 5? The Raid 5 performance should also be questioned..here are some number returned by hdparam You will get horribly bad performance off raid5 if you have stripes on both hda/hdb or hdc/hdd etc. Feb 13 05:23:27 bertha kernel: hdo:

Re: IDE DMA Problems...system hangs

2001-02-14 Thread Jasmeet Sidhu
At 08:28 PM 2/14/2001 +, Alan Cox wrote: Anybody else having these problems with a ide raid 5? The Raid 5 performance should also be questioned..here are some number returned by hdparam You will get horribly bad performance off raid5 if you have stripes on both hda/hdb or hdc/hdd etc.

Re: IDE DMA Problems...system hangs

2001-02-14 Thread Alan Cox
You will get horribly bad performance off raid5 if you have stripes on both hda/hdb or hdc/hdd etc. If I am reading this correctly, then by striping on both hda/hdb and /hdc/hdd you mean that I have two drives per ide channel. In other words, you think I have a Master and a Slave type

Re: IDE DMA Problems...system hangs

2001-02-14 Thread Thomas Dodd
Jasmeet Sidhu wrote: Hey guys, I am attaching my previous email for additional info. Now I am using kernel 2.4.1-ac12 and these problems have not gone away. Anybody else having these problems with a ide raid 5? The Raid 5 performance should also be questioned..here are some number

Re: IDE DMA Problems...system hangs

2001-02-14 Thread Barry K. Nathan
Alan Cox wrote: Feb 13 05:23:27 bertha kernel: hdo: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } Feb 13 05:23:27 bertha kernel: hdo: dma_intr: error=0x84 { DriveStatusError BadCRC } You have inadequate cabling. CRC errors are indications of that. Make sure you are using