Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932076AbVLAEez (ORCPT ); Wed, 30 Nov 2005 23:34:55 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932075AbVLAEez (ORCPT ); Wed, 30 Nov 2005 23:34:55 -0500 Received: from ylpvm15-ext.prodigy.net ([207.115.57.46]:14509 "EHLO ylpvm15.prodigy.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751395AbVLAEey (ORCPT ); Wed, 30 Nov 2005 23:34:54 -0500 X-ORBL: [68.79.81.172] Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2005 23:34:51 -0500 (EST) From: Vladimir Dergachev X-X-Sender: volodya@node2.an-vo.com Reply-To: Vladimir Dergachev To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Megaraid problems Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2121 Lines: 52 Hi all :) I am wondering whether someone can shed some light on issues I am having with LSI Megaraid cards ? The problem described below is with SATA card, but I am also having difficulties with LSI HBA Scsi adaptor, ableit I have not yet eliminated all the obvious things to try. Please CC your replies as I am not on the list.. My setup: dual Opteron 252 with 8 GB RAM, Tyan Thunder K8W. SUSE 9.3 - I tried both the native SUSE kernel and 2.6.14.3 from kernel.org, 4 400GB Western Digital drivers in RAID5 configuration connected to LSI MegaRAID SATA 150-6 The are also 3 250 GB drives connected to on-board SIL3114 where Linux is installed. Problem: card recognizes the disks fine, initialization goes ok. I can create partition with no problem. However when copying files I get filesystem corruption (holds both with ext3 and XFS). For ext3 I see the following message: EXT3-fs error (device sdd1): ext3_new_block: Allocating block in system zone - block = 100663296 Aborting journal on device sdd1. EXT3-fs error (device sdd1) in ext3_prepare_write: Journal has aborted ext3_abort called. EXT3-fs error (device sdd1): ext3_journal_start_sb: Detected aborted journal Remounting filesystem read-only The hardware is otherwise stable - this box also has 3 disks in software RAID5 connected to SIL3114 and a similar box has 3ware card with 8 drives, which function fine. I would appreciate any suggestions on what to try/tweak/patch. thank you very much ! Vladimir Dergachev PS One more thing - none of LSI binary configuration tools work - they report they cannot find the adaptor even though /dev/megadev0 is pointing to correct adaptor (I tried both 253 and 254 for major numbers and 0,1,2,3,4 for minor numbers). I was not successful in finding an open-source management tool.. - 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/