Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751311AbWJVRTT (ORCPT ); Sun, 22 Oct 2006 13:19:19 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751322AbWJVRTT (ORCPT ); Sun, 22 Oct 2006 13:19:19 -0400 Received: from nf-out-0910.google.com ([64.233.182.190]:29403 "EHLO nf-out-0910.google.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751311AbWJVRTS (ORCPT ); Sun, 22 Oct 2006 13:19:18 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=QIfGV4cR1VG4+sfIi6ERVvYGw1/6enHq4VPfXPNKPWfPDCfEBcU+EsdQ3ERe+1bzcEazKhvTy7dgxi3AesWQIBLMiSfiQlZW4pOY4/YCV4aBVf7zFfwgSwgLkZwmwTJUFzeG/qJ4nlgkEvmRFYLcalTNGgtyf3A7UibrwYPdG4Q= Message-ID: Date: Sun, 22 Oct 2006 10:19:16 -0700 From: "adam radford" To: "Andrew Morton" Subject: Re: 3Ware delayed device mounting errors with newer 9500 series adapters Cc: "Jeffrey V. Merkey" , linux-kernel , linuxraid@amcc.com, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <20061021233904.c2f40a5f.akpm@osdl.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <453A52CE.80605@wolfmountaingroup.com> <20061021233904.c2f40a5f.akpm@osdl.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2256 Lines: 55 Jeff, Can you reproduce with 2.6.18.1? ES4 contains a custom 3ware driver. Also, you have included no error output with this email whatsoever. Can you go to a virtual console during your ES4 install, run 'dmesg', and see if the errors are in there, or if they are a part of the ES4 anaconda installer? /dev/sdb, etc. having delayed appearances sounds like it is udev related. Are you running the latest firmware? Do your controllers older than 60 days have different firmware? I will try to reproduce this. -Adam On 10/21/06, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Sat, 21 Oct 2006 11:03:10 -0600 > "Jeffrey V. Merkey" wrote: > > > > > Adam, > > > > We have been getting 3Ware 9500 series adapters in the past 60 days > > which exhibit a delayed behavior during mounting of FS from > > /etc/fstab. The adapters older than this do not exhibit this behavior. > > > > During bootup, if the driver is compiled as a module rather than in > > kernel, mount points such as /var in fstab fail to detect the devices > > until the system fully boots, at which point the /dev/sdb etc. devices > > showup. It happens on both ATA cabled drives and drives > > cabled with multi-lane controller backplanes. > > > > The problem is easy to reproduce. Install ES4, point the /var directory > > during install to one of the array devices in disk druid, and after > > the install completes, /var/ will not mount during bootup and all sorts > > of errors stream off the screen. I can reproduce the problem > > with several systems in our labs and upon investigating the adapter > > revisions, I find that adapters ordered in the past 60 days exhibit > > the problem. Compiling the driver in kernel gets around the problem, > > indicating its timing related. > > > > cc's added. > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > - 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/