Re: Fw: DriveReady SeekComplete problems

From: Maurice Hilarius

With regards to your message at 03:13 PM 5/9/02, Artur Jasowicz. Where you
stated:

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I am building a file server with 5 drive software RAID5 array. I am using
three IWill SIDE-100 (Highpoint 370A) controllers as my IDE interfaces,
not using their RAID functionality. One Maxtor 160GB drive per channel,
two channels per controller. I plan on adding hot spare as the sixth

drive

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in the future. There's one 160GB partition on each drive. Linux version
2.4.19-pre7smp-020502b (root@production) (gcc version 2.96 20000731 (Red
Hat Linux 7.1 2.96-98)) #6 SMP Thu May 2 12:15:34 CDT 2002
This is a dual Athlon 2000+ MP on Tyan Tiger S2466N-4 with 1GB RAM. OS

and

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swap runs on separate drives and controllers. This array will be just for
data once it is configured.

Below are the most relevant parts of my logs. I will post further details
if anyone is willing to help, just let me know what info you need. Any
suggestions greatly appreciated.

Probably cable problem..

May be, although I've used original, 18in cables, changed the config to use
diferent controllers, the errors came from all drives, randomly. Isn't it
unlikely, that all cables are bad?

Maybe cards not getting a clean IRQ status.

I'm not sure what you mean by that, here's my IRQs is that ok?
[root@production root]# cat /proc/interrupts
           CPU0       CPU1
  0:    1060111     900968    IO-APIC-edge  timer
  1:       2223       1623    IO-APIC-edge  keyboard
  2:          0          0          XT-PIC  cascade
  5:     475613     476603   IO-APIC-level  ide2, ide3, eth1
  8:          1          0    IO-APIC-edge  rtc
  9:     464960     465255   IO-APIC-level  ide4, ide5, eth2
 10:      12405      11231   IO-APIC-level  eth0
 11:      69567      67494   IO-APIC-level  ide6
 12:        159       1172    IO-APIC-edge  PS/2 Mouse
 14:      48388      44855    IO-APIC-edge  ide0
 15:      48907      47090    IO-APIC-edge  ide1
NMI:          0          0
LOC:    1961162    1961161
ERR:          0
MIS:          0