Mike,
> Did you ever try putting only one disk on the Promise Controller?
I have now. Same problem.
> Or putting ALL your disks on your mboard IDE?
Same again.
> Or for that matter all your disks on the Promise?
Don't want to do that, as I would like not to muck about with hda. If
the on-board controller works fine for an almost full hda, I can't see
that it's going to improve matters moving everything to the Promise
controller. These disks all work fine individually whatever controller
they are on. It is only when I try to use them in a RAID that I get a
problem.
This was a good idea, and worth a try, but I'm pretty convinced now that
it's not the problem.
Cheers,
Bruno Prior
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Bruno Prior" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: "linux-raid" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Friday, July 06, 2001 7:35 PM
> Subject: raid 5: switching cache buffer size, 4096 -> 1024. What does this
> mean?
>
> > I have had a couple of replies to my recent message ("Can't create
> > filesystem on large degraded IDE Software RAID-5" on 3 July), for which
> > I am grateful. But no one has yet been able to address the fundamental
> > error. I was hoping that one of the gurus on this list might be able at
> > least to explain what that error meant.
> >
> > As a reminder, when trying to create a filesystem on a large RAID-5 in
> > degraded mode, I get the message:
> >
> > raid 5: switching cache buffer size, 4096 -> 1024
> >
> > and the system freezes completely, requiring a hard reset. Can anyone
> > tell me what this message means, and why it would freeze my machine?
> >
> > I have created filesystems on the individual partitions of which the
> > raid is composed without difficulty, so it would seem to be a
> > raid-related problem.
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Bruno Prior
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