Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 16 Apr 1999 01:37:26 -0700 (PDT) | From | David Tsang <> | Subject | Re: EATA - DPT PM3334UW SCSI HBA v7M.0 |
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> > I am trying to use the DPT 3334 in a news server to do both > > RAID 1 (for the boot drives) and RAID 0 (for the data).
I have a RAID 5 stack, with HBA v7M.6.
> > It will run fine until the expire (or some other high disk use > > activity) begins. Then it crashes with many wait_on_bh errors. > > > > Has anyone else had problems with the 3334 in the following configuration? > >
After copying about 20 Gigs worth of files, the driver crapped out on a 2 and half Gig file.
> > Dual 400 PII w/ 512 cache > > 256 Megs of RAM > > 2 4 Gig drives (mirrored - 1) > > 3 9 Gig drives (concat'ed - 0) > > > > 2.2.4 linux kernel
PII 400 w/ 512 cache 500 Mb of RAM
2 18 Gig Drives (software RAID 0) 3 18 GIG Drives (PM3334UW RAID 5)
kernel 2.0.37pre9
> > > > Ideas? Solutions? a gun? > > I have a couple of servers in a similar configuration. One of them in > fact is running a pretty good sized news server. We are running the > 2.2.5 kernel and haven't heard a peep out of them. > > Make sure that you are using the EATA driver not the EATA_DMA driver. > The EATA_DMA driver is obsolete and we did see some some > non-deterministic problems when we were using the EATA_DMA drivers, > especially in an SMP environment.
I am using the EATA/ISA/PCI driver version: 2.59b
Any suggestions for this case?
-dave
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