I'm trying to make a 20 gig file system on a HP NetServer.  It has an "HP
Net Raid" card, which I'm driving with the AMI MegaRAID driver.  I've used
kernel 2.2.10, unpatched, and added AMI's megaraid.c version 1.01 manually.
 This morning, I tried again with Alan's proposed 2.0.11pre2 patch (which
has the megaraid.c 1.01 with it).  I still had the same problem.

I can fdisk and create the partition just fine (my RAID has 6 18 gig
drives, 2 hot swap, 4 in a RAID 5, exposing about 52.1 gigs of space).  But
when I mkfs the 20 gig partition, it:

Writing inode tables: up to 2501, then says "done".
Site there after writing "done" for 2:30.
Says "Writing superblocks & filesystem accounting info".
Sits there for about 2 minutes.
Aborts with "aborting command due to timeout".  Prints the string:
(10) 20 03 25 c5 ff 00 00 02 00
Adds a second "aborting command due to timeout" with the string:
(10) 20 03 28 86 5D 00 00 02 00

Then it adds "Abort: 1500 1500".

Finally, "Blocked mailbox on exit" appears, and repeats, over and over
again, scrolling up the screen about 2 per second...the only way to recover
is a hard reset.

I'm going to try some other things: mkfs with a smaller number of inodes,
etc, but I figured I'd pose my problem to the gurus and see if anybody's
seen anything like this.

The same RAID drive has a 1 gig and a 5 gig partition on it, created and
formatted just fine.

Any help?  Any suggestions?

Thanks...

Kevin



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