Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264380AbTH2At0 (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Aug 2003 20:49:26 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264388AbTH2AtZ (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Aug 2003 20:49:25 -0400 Received: from mail.vtc.edu.hk ([202.75.80.229]:33624 "EHLO pandora.vtc.edu.hk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264380AbTH2AtY (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Aug 2003 20:49:24 -0400 Message-ID: <3F4EA30C.CEA49F2F@vtc.edu.hk> Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2003 08:49:16 +0800 From: Nick Urbanik Organization: Institute of Vocational Education (Tsing Yi) X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.8 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.22 i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Linux Kernel list Subject: Single P4, many IDE PCI cards == trouble?? Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Junkmail-Whitelist: YES (by domain whitelist at pandora.vtc.edu.hk) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1390 Lines: 35 Dear Folks, With a single 2.26GHz P4, an Asus P4B533-E motherboard, is it possible to reliably use two additional PCI IDE cards (using SI680), one hard disk per channel, and have the thing work reliably? Could this be the cause of my lockups? I have a total of 6 ATA133 hard disks, one DVD player all connected to the two IDE channels on the motherboard, and one disk to each of the channels of the SI680 cards. Some people have told me that this is just asking for trouble, and that I should buy a 3ware card instead. I am also using software RAID1, RAID5 with LVM on top. My machine locks solid at unpredictable intervals with no response from keyboard lights, no Alt-Sysrq-x response, etc, with a wide variety of 2.4.x kernels, including 2.4.22. -- Nick Urbanik RHCE nicku(at)vtc.edu.hk Dept. of Information & Communications Technology Hong Kong Institute of Vocational Education (Tsing Yi) Tel: (852) 2436 8576, (852) 2436 8713 Fax: (852) 2436 8526 PGP: 53 B6 6D 73 52 EE 1F EE EC F8 21 98 45 1C 23 7B ID: 7529555D GPG: 7FFA CDC7 5A77 0558 DC7A 790A 16DF EC5B BB9D 2C24 ID: BB9D2C24 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/