Greetings, About two months ago, I built 2.2.12 with SMP and RAID 5 for my dual-Celeron (Abit BP6) system with four IDE drives. I booted, and it fsck'd the arrays just fine, and mounted all the non-RAID partitions, but when it went to mount the RAID partitions, it froze.
I heard some reports about a race in 2.2.12 IDE, so I waited for 2.2.13, which I finally built yesterday, same result! How can it fsck the array successfully, and then fail to mount it?? So now I once again have to go back to kernel-image-2.2.10, and ckraid --fix, which takes seven hours on my two partitions. Very annoying, and discouraging of future attempts to try another SMP kernel... What on earth could be wrong? Here's the RAID info as printed during ckraid --fix: checking raid level 5 set /dev/md0 MD ID: a92b4efc Conforms to MD version: 0.36.4 Raid set ID: b7ad977a Creation time: Tue Sep 7 18:01:58 1999 Update time: Sat Nov 27 20:56:07 1999 State: 0 Raid level: 5 Individual disk size: 5120 MB (5243008 kB) Chunk size: 32 kB Parity algorithm: 2 (left-symmetric) Total number of disks: 4 Number of raid disks: 4 Number of active disks: 4 Number of working disks: 4 Number of failed disks: 0 Number of spare disks: 0 Disk 0: raid_disk 0, state: 6 (operational, active, sync) Disk 1: raid_disk 1, state: 6 (operational, active, sync) Disk 2: raid_disk 2, state: 6 (operational, active, sync) Disk 3: raid_disk 3, state: 6 (operational, active, sync) array size: 1572902kB=0xC0060000 It's running now for ~2:15 to clean up this partition, then will go another 5 or so hours for a 30 GB partition on /dev/md1 Unfortunately, I don't have my kernel config now- it's trapped in the sick machine. :-( I built Raid 5 as a module, and modconf has it in its list. But that should be installing properly, since it is fscking, right? If I get help here, I'll try once more tomorrow, twice if I can start early. Otherwise, that second processor- and the nice dual-Celeron MB- will be a total waste. :-( Thanks for any help! Zeen, -Adam "...the firmament sheweth His handywork" (Ps 19:1) /// ............................................................__ ///| Adam "Cold Fusion" Powell IV Firmament Science & Engineering\\\///_| http://lyre.mit.edu/~powell/ Standing on the Solid State Rock\XX/ |MIGA
