--- In [email protected], Jaqui Greenlees <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- Tom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > What about SuSE? I'm trying to store AVI files on my > > Suse box. > > > > I'm this absolute noob with Suse 9.2 and Samba 3.09 > > trying to get it > > all to work reliably, and I have some problems. Of > > course, my problems > > are rather more interesting, or should I say, > > esoteric. > > from what follows, it is probably not suse specific. > seems to be more a filesystem io error, caused by the > raid array. it is either the configuration of the > array itself or the driver is buggy. > ( since I often see people having problems with raid, > it's most likely the driver itself. ) > > I would check for bugfix / updates for the raid driver > from suse.
I keep up with updates, but I don't even know what driver is being used. Searches of updates for "compaq" and Smart-2/P usually come up dry. How can I tell what driver is being used? tolkien:/var/log/samba # lspci 0000:02:00.0 Unknown mass storage controller: Compaq Computer Corporation Smart-2/P RAID Controller (rev 04) > > Um, the most obvious symptom is copying stuff to the > > RAID array from a > > WinXP workstation. Like tonight I picked a folder > > full of big files > > and did a drag'n'drop copy into a test folder on a > > Samba share on the > > linux box. I tried to copy 2.94GB of stuff. After > > 15-20 minutes, it > > died, like it always does, with "The specified > > network name is no > > longer available." It had copied 1.714GB worth. If > > you start again, it > > will just continue. If you use a smarter tool that > > does retries, you > > can click the OK button on the error and it will > > just take off where > > it left off as if nothing had happened. > > > > I'm also trying to run a DLink 320 media server > > against content both > > on a Windows workstation and server shares mapped to > > drive letters on > > that workstation. The media server at times acts > > like the folders are > > present but empty, but then you look again and it's > > all there. > > are the server shares from the raid array linux > system? > it's not clear in this part. Yes, the shares I'm copying to are absolutely on the RAID array on the linux box. They are reiserFS on logical volumes. > > Watching network activity and the access lights on > > the drives, there's > > a lot of net activity before the drives get busy. > > Then they're both > > really busy for the longest time, then the network > > lights stall for a > > long time and the drive continue to grind away. The > > network channel on > > the switch will light up for periods while the > > drives keep busy. But > > every once in a while the drives will make a noise > > like a recalibrate > > and just stop (access lights go out) for 5-10 > > seconds). BTW I've searched /var/log/messages for anything that suggests SCSI resets or anything else awry but no such thing appears in any of my logs. > > The server is a PIII-500mhz with 352mb of RAM. Yeah > > I know, but it's > > all I have. The RAID controller is a Compaq > > SmartArray. It signs on as > > a SmartArray 3200 in the BIOS but the configuration > > software (Which > > only runs in Win2k) thinks of it as a SmartArray 2P > > or 2D. I have one > > channel from the card cabled to a five drive array > > and another channel > > cabled to a three-drive array. All the arrays are > > populated with > > 10,000RPM 18gb drives. Benchmarks running against > > this thing are so > > slow to write, 2.1 mb/s, reads are more like 11-12 > > mb/s on sequential > > reads, 22mb/s on random reads. > > > > I wonder about a lot of things: People have > > suggested that name > > services, being UDP, are getting swamped by the TCP > > traffic and the XP > > workstations lose track of where the linux box is. > > So I edited LMhosts > > on the XP workstations and added an entry for the > > linux box, with the > > #PRE directive, so it would be precached. > > > > That made no difference that I can tell. > > > > Another thing I wonder about is whether I need a > > special driver for > > the RAID controller for SuSE or any other Linux. If > > I run lspci it > > says it's an "Unknown mass storage controller: > > Compaq Computer > > Corporation Smart-2P RAID Controller." But it found > > the logical array > > configured on it without any special help. > > > > So what's left: Not enough memory? Too dang slow at > > 500mhz? I have a > > parameter in smb.conf that's intended to provide > > write caching for a > > particular share, but I can't tell if it helped any: > > Write Cache size > > = 393216. I had it a 256k and that didn't help much > > either. > > > > Running ifconfig shows no errors of any kind on the > > eth0 interface, > > and no traffic on any other. > > > > So, who's got an idea? > > > > -Tom > > > > Jaqui > > support your local resource reallocation specialist, keep the dumpsters unlocked. > > plain text files only. m$ .doc not readable. > > ______________________________________________________________________ > Post your free ad now! http://personals.yahoo.ca To unsubscribe from this list, please email [EMAIL PROTECTED] & you will be removed. Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LINUX_Newbies/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
