Re: SMP + IDE RAID

HELLRAiDER (hellraid@mpower.ptf.hro.nl)
Mon, 25 Oct 1999 19:41:11 +0200 (CEST)


i dont have a clue ;/

On Mon, 25 Oct 1999, Jens Axboe wrote:

> On Mon, Oct 25 1999, HELLRAiDER wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I'd like to submit some testing results you you all regarding IDE software
> > RAID & SMP.
> >
> > Testing was done with the following:
> >
> > Abit BP6 dual Celeron board, 4 Quantum Bigfoots as hda, hdc, hde, hdg
> > (Intel PIIX pri master, sec master & HPT366 pri master, sec master), 2
> > Intel Celeron CPU's.
> >
> > linux 2.2.13 kernel source,
> > linux 2.2.13ac1 patch,
> > ide patch for 2.2.13pre17.
> >
> > After compiling and booting the system all seemed ok.
> > Then i bugun trying to trigger the smp/ide problem by running a
> >
> > dd if=/dev/md0 of=/dev/null
> >
> > along with 3
> >
> > yes "blablablabla" > /tmp/dumpx
> >
> > this was going just fine for about an hour.
> > I was also ding some minor ftp sessions to another machine and accessing a
> > samba share from a windows box.
> > After about one hour, the system freesed. No error messages were on the
> > console, nothing worked, i had to reboot the system to get it back up.
> >
> > Hope this info will help sorting a possible problem out. If you need any
> > more info, don't hessistate to contact me
>
> I'm not sure whether Ingo has made the nmi oopser available for
> 2.2 SMP too, but if he has that could provide oops information
> in the above case. Or is the nmi watchdog included in the IKD
> patch?
>
> --
> * Jens Axboe <axboe@image.dk>
> * Linux CD-ROM Maintainer
> * http://www.kernel.dk
>

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