[dm-devel] Hard drives shutting themselves off in RAID mode

[Rune Saetre]

Hi

Next silly question then:
It can't be the power supply not coping with a large number of disks 
seeking simultaneously? If the voltage drops too much some disks might 
shut down.

Probably unlikely, but it would yield a simple solution..

Rune

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Rune Sætre <rune.saetre at netcom-gsm.no>
NetCom as
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On Thu, 15 Jun 2006, Tom Wirschell wrote:

> On 15 Jun 2006, Greg Freemyer wrote:
>>
>> In 2.6.17-mm there is a huge SATA error handler (EH) rewrite.  Is is
>> planned to hit the stable Linus kernel with 2.6.18 towards the end of
>> the summer, but even then it will only have a few of the actual
>> drivers modified to use the EH infrastructure.
>
> Damn. I read about this in the LWN.net Kernel pages for may 17th. I
> figured that once it was in, everything would automagically be using it
> too (i.e. the drivers wouldn't need to be updated to the new system).
> Guess I was a tad naïve about that.
> I tried 2.6.17-rc5-mm2 and ran into some BUG()s which went away when I
> just stuck to 2.6.17-rc5.
>
>> I would repost your problem to the lkml-ide list and see if they think
>> that the new EH should help you, and when/if your controller will be
>> using the new EH infrastructure.
>
> Looks like a good idea, thanks!
> Don't let that keep anybody on this list who might have an explanation
> for this be deterred from responding though. :)
>
>> Also, there is a ton of testing going on with the new EH, so if your
>> willing to be a guinea pig, I'm sure you will get a lot of support
>> from the dev. team and get your specific driver updated ASAP.
>
> I've been sitting on a non-functional array for almost 3 months now.
> Don't mind having weird issues a little longer if it means things will
> end up working nicely in the end (or I at least get a sensible
> explanation for what's wrong, so I know what I must do to fix it).
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Tom Wirschell
>
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