RE: Bolck Device problem or Compaq Smart array 2 problem? kernel -2.4 .0+

From: Nathan Black (NBlack@md.aacisd.com)
Date: Mon Jan 29 2001 - 11:44:06 EST


It comes back with a command prompt. trying a "simple command... ps, ls
it does not return. The hard disks(hardware raid) light up. But it seems
like noone is home.
It doesn't oops in the 2.4.1-pre11 or 10.
That is a good thing.

-----Original Message-----
From: Jens Axboe [mailto:axboe@suse.de]
Sent: Monday, January 29, 2001 11:38 AM
To: Nathan Black
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Bolck Device problem or Compaq Smart array 2 problem?
kernel -2.4 .0+

On Mon, Jan 29 2001, Nathan Black wrote:
> Here are my results.
>
> 2.2.18- works fine. 24 MBytes/sec at 100+ gigabytes (16GB looped many
times
> ( lseek64(FD,SEEK_SET,0) )).
>
> 2.4.0 release SMP and Uniprocessor with NMI on- Kernel oops. I can
reproduce
> if necessary( oops at about 700 MB) sometimes more, sometime less. (In
> BDFLUSH if I recall)
>
> 2.4.0 release UniProcessor NMI off- Works like the 2.2.18
>
> 2.4.1-pre10 & 11- Works but system becomes unusable(requires reboot) after
> completing.

Unusable how? Does it hang or oops? Does nmi and up/smp make any
differences in 2.4.1-preXX?

I did some fixes for cpq after the blk merge in 2.4.1-pre, and got
reports that it works. However, I don't have the necessary hardware
to test myself.

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Jens Axboe
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