RE: System / libata IDE controller woes (long)

2007-01-07 Thread Erik Ohrnberger
Well, after more mucking about, and copying data off of the production LVM on to the backup LVM, I noticed that no matter where I put this one Seagate drive, it caused dma_timer_expiry errors. Once I replaced this drive, everything settled down again, and has been running normally. So it's not th

Re: System / libata IDE controller woes (long)

2006-12-26 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 27 December 2006 00:50, Erik Ohrnberger wrote: >Hi There! > Yea, I thought that it might be power related as well, so I moved >1/2 of the drives from the 500 Watt power supply onto a separate one, > and it did not change any of the symptoms. So I think that it's been > ruled out

RE: System / libata IDE controller woes (long)

2006-12-26 Thread Erik Ohrnberger
Hi There! Yea, I thought that it might be power related as well, so I moved 1/2 of the drives from the 500 Watt power supply onto a separate one, and it did not change any of the symptoms. So I think that it's been ruled out. Thanks, Erik. > > Hello, > > Erik Ohr

Re: System / libata IDE controller woes (long)

2006-12-26 Thread Tejun Heo
Hello, Erik Ohrnberger wrote: > Earlier this year, when I started putting it together, I gathered my > hardware. A decent 2 GHz Athlon system with 512 MB RAM, DVD drive, a 40 GB > system drive, and a 500 Watt power supply. Then I started adding hard > disks. To date, I've got 5 80 GB PATA, 2 20

Re: System / libata IDE controller woes (long)

2006-12-26 Thread Justin Piszcz
I had the same problem you did when I put 3 identical controllers together. To get around that problem I used 2 TX133s and 1 TX100x2. I believe this is the root cause of your problems. Justin. On Tue, 26 Dec 2006, Erik Ohrnberger wrote: > First off, Merry Christmas, Seasons Greetings and Hap

System / libata IDE controller woes (long)

2006-12-26 Thread Erik Ohrnberger
First off, Merry Christmas, Seasons Greetings and Happy Holidays! Hang on, this is a bit of a long story, but I think that you'll need the information and background. I want what amounts to a NAS, that I'd like to build on gentoo Linux. I'm familiar with gentoo and the use of EVMS, so I think I'