Bryan J. Smith wrote:
On Thu, 2005-07-07 at 11:45 +0200, Farkas Levente wrote:
after we change the motherboard, the raid contorller and the cables too we still got it. finally we start netdump and last but not least yesterday we got a crash log and a core file. it seems there is a bug in the raid5 code of the kernel. this is our backup server with 8 x 200GB hdd in a raid5 (for the data) plus 2 x 40GB hdd in raid1 (for the system) with 3ware 8xxx raid contorller, running. i attached the netdump log of the last crash. how can i fix it?
It looks like you are using the 3Ware Escalade card as "just a bunch of disks" (JBOD) and not using hardware RAID-5. Is there any reason you're doing this? Kinda seems to defeat the purpose of the card?
we use this since about 3 years. that day we read all kinf of docs and most people suggest to use in this way. faster (even you don't think so), easier, safer. just look trough the linux-raid list.
Also be sure to always update the firmware of the card to the latest, and match it with the latest driver. Running an older firmware with a newer driver is never ideal.
we always use the latest:-)