Re: SV: SV: Could one disk cause all this, or is it a bug in Linux-RAID?

2000-03-06 Thread David Cooley
At 09:53 AM 3/6/2000, Johan Ekenberg wrote: > > >No. Like described in my original post, the crashes occur with > > >no warning at all. The system just goes down as when pulling the > > >power cord, and if the raid superblocks don't mess up to bad it > > >comes back up again. > > > > > > Could hav

SV: SV: Could one disk cause all this, or is it a bug in Linux-RAID?

2000-03-06 Thread Johan Ekenberg
> >No. Like described in my original post, the crashes occur with > >no warning at all. The system just goes down as when pulling the > >power cord, and if the raid superblocks don't mess up to bad it > >comes back up again. > > > Could have a bad power supply, and the other item is the Motherboar

Re: SV: Could one disk cause all this, or is it a bug in Linux-RAID?

2000-03-06 Thread David Cooley
At 07:57 AM 3/6/2000, Johan Ekenberg wrote: > > > The Epox mb. has only one AIC7890 controller for U2W (LVD). All > > six drives > > > are on this controller. > > > > > > Perhaps I have to replace all disks as well then... > > > > > Hmm... scsii is pretty tough to mess up, but it is possible. Are

SV: Could one disk cause all this, or is it a bug in Linux-RAID?

2000-03-06 Thread Johan Ekenberg
> > The Epox mb. has only one AIC7890 controller for U2W (LVD). All > six drives > > are on this controller. > > > > Perhaps I have to replace all disks as well then... > > > Hmm... scsii is pretty tough to mess up, but it is possible. Are there > any error messages in any of the logs from th

Re: Could one disk cause all this, or is it a bug in Linux-RAID?

2000-03-05 Thread Michael Robinton
On Sun, 5 Mar 2000, Johan Ekenberg wrote: > > > About the crashes I reported yesterday: > > > I received several mails suggesting cable problems, > > > Power supply failure etc, so maybe I did not make > > > my self clear enough: I've replaced all hardware > > > except the disks. The disks have

Re: Could one disk cause all this, or is it a bug in Linux-RAID?

2000-03-05 Thread Johan Ekenberg
> > About the crashes I reported yesterday: > > I received several mails suggesting cable problems, > > Power supply failure etc, so maybe I did not make > > my self clear enough: I've replaced all hardware > > except the disks. The disks have been checked > > How many disk controllers are involve

Re: Could one disk cause all this, or is it a bug in Linux-RAID?

2000-03-05 Thread Johan Ekenberg
> From: Mike Black [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Mike: Thanks for your time and help, it's really appreciated! > Are you sure you're running in LVD mode? > 6 disks on Ultra2 non-LVD would be limited to a total 1.5meters cable > length. I doubt with 6 disks that you are under 1.5 meters. Well, I t

Re: SV: Could one disk cause all this, or is it a bug in Linux-RAID?

2000-03-05 Thread Michael Robinton
On Sun, 5 Mar 2000, Johan Ekenberg wrote: > About the crashes I reported yesterday: > I received several mails suggesting cable problems, > Power supply failure etc, so maybe I did not make > my self clear enough: I've replaced all hardware > except the disks. The disks have been checked How ma

SV: Could one disk cause all this, or is it a bug in Linux-RAID?

2000-03-05 Thread Johan Ekenberg
About the crashes I reported yesterday: I received several mails suggesting cable problems, Power supply failure etc, so maybe I did not make my self clear enough: I've replaced all hardware except the disks. The disks have been checked w/ SCSI-BIOS disk utilities, without finding any errors. Eith

Could one disk cause all this, or is it a bug in Linux-RAID?

2000-03-04 Thread Johan Ekenberg
I don't understand why I'm getting such mysterious crashes on one out of four identical Linux SMP 2.2.14 servers running RAID5. The machine just goes down without a warning. Sometimes it manages to reboot, sometimes the superblocks get out of sync so I've had to mkraid --force them right again. I