"Jason A. Diegmueller" wrote:
>
> : A number of us are having similar problems currently with
> : 2.2.1? with many ide disks and SMP. It is probably worth
> : sending linux-kernel a summary of your difficulty, as the
> : topic is being discussed. What Alan would really like is
> : if you could run 2.2.13pre11 without the raid code, and get a
> : similar lockup... perhaps just by keying heavy disk activity
> : on each disk at the same time.. at least this works for the
> : many-ide-SMP lockups (something like dd if=/dev/sdX of=/dev/null
> : count=500000 & running on each drive at the same time.
>
> For what it's worth, this particular box is NOT running any IDE
> drives. It has (4) 2.1gb SCSI drives on an aic78xx adapter.
dunno if that's gonna help you a bit or not, but I happen to
have exactly (4) 4.3gb SCSI drives on an aic78xxx ( the Ultra Wide
version) too, on an SMP box (2.2.12). however, I boot on an IDE
drive, and uses no RAID.
This one config is working fine.
I'd say, it's the raid thingy, then ...
Viet
