I've got a 30G RAID-5 (latest alpha MD on top of pre-5) running on a Dual
PPro (overclocked from 180 to 200) on the Tyan board (Titan Pro? I forget
now...) with 3 NCR825 (one's an 825a) boards with no problems. I was
running it before with 3 4G Caviars (IDE) with the stock MD driver in
2.0.29 with no problems.
-Rob H.
On Mon, 17 Nov 1997, Johannes Erdfelt wrote:
> First a little background about my system:
>
> Dual PPro 200
> Tyan Titan Pro
> 128meg of EDO memory
> Adaptec 2940UW
> 3 4.3gig Wide Seagates
> 1 1gig Narrow Seagate
>
> The machine has been very unstable. It crashes/reboots on the average of
> once every other day. I boot off the 1gig drive and then use MD to make
> 3 raid0 partitions off of the 3 other drives (/usr, /var and /home).
>
> The first time the machine crashed was when a friend was ssh'd to
> another box when a couple of SCSI errors popped up, an oops and then
> this scrolled forever until a reboot:
>
> scsi0: Warning!! Interrupt routine called reentrantly!
>
> Upon rebooting, nothing in the logs (suprise). The other 4 times have
> been reboots when I wasn't near the computer. Nothing in the logs any of
> the times.
>
> Between the error message above and the lack of anything in the logs
> it looks like there's something wrong with SCSI or MD. I think I
> remember seeing a reference to SMP not mixing with MD at all in the 2.0
> series.
>
> I've tried 2.0.29, 2.0.31 and 2.0.32-pre2. I'm about to try the latest
> 2.0.32-pre but I don't have much hope for it fixing anything.
>
> Are there known problems with SMP + MD?
> Will they be fixed in 2.0.x?
> Am I better off running a 2.1.x kernel?
> Am I leaving off any information?
>
> JE
>