only 1 disk of 5 in port multiplier setup is recognized

I have a silicon image 3124 based pci card that is port multiplier compatible (it works fine under win xp) that is only showing one of 5 attached drives when attached to a Redhat 5 computer, with both 2.6.18-8.1.15.el5 and 2.6.23.1. The SATA link shows as up for the one recognized drive, the

only 1 disk of 5 in port multiplier setup is recognized

I have a silicon image 3124 based pci card that is port multiplier compatible (it works fine under win xp) that is only showing one of 5 attached drives when attached to a Redhat 5 computer, with both 2.6.18-8.1.15.el5 and 2.6.23.1. The SATA link shows as up for the one recognized drive, the

Re: Requirement: swap = RAM x 2.5 ??

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Richard Gooch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Swap is "extra space to be used if we have it" and nothing else. > > Sure. But Linux still works without swap. It's just that if you *do* > have swap, it works best with 2* RAM. There is a large difference between

Re: Requirement: swap = RAM x 2.5 ??

In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Richard Gooch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Swap is extra space to be used if we have it and nothing else. Sure. But Linux still works without swap. It's just that if you *do* have swap, it works best with 2* RAM. There is a large difference between saying Linux

Dell smp won't boot

One of my dual cpu dell server running 2.2.15 has stopped booting. It gets part way through the boot process and rints wait_oin_bh, cpu 1 irq: 0 [0 0] bh: 1 [1 0] <[c010aefd]> <[c0119ecf]> <[c011a029]> <[c0113ad0]> <[c010933c]> and repeats. Might this be a software problem, or should I simply

Dell smp won't boot

One of my dual cpu dell server running 2.2.15 has stopped booting. It gets part way through the boot process and rints wait_oin_bh, cpu 1 irq: 0 [0 0] bh: 1 [1 0] [c010aefd] [c0119ecf] [c011a029] [c0113ad0] [c010933c] and repeats. Might this be a software problem, or should I simply call in for

Re: 2T for i386

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Ricky Beam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If you're building a 2TB array, you're not gonna do it with bloody IDE > hardware. (I hope you're joking.) The big problem with IDE is trying to find raid 5 that works with 8 or more disks, raid 5 with 4 disks wastes too

Re: 2T for i386

In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Ricky Beam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you're building a 2TB array, you're not gonna do it with bloody IDE hardware. (I hope you're joking.) The big problem with IDE is trying to find raid 5 that works with 8 or more disks, raid 5 with 4 disks wastes too much. And