Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753819AbYGGJxc (ORCPT ); Mon, 7 Jul 2008 05:53:32 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752134AbYGGJxV (ORCPT ); Mon, 7 Jul 2008 05:53:21 -0400 Received: from mail.acc.umu.se ([130.239.18.156]:54564 "EHLO mail.acc.umu.se" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750934AbYGGJxU (ORCPT ); Mon, 7 Jul 2008 05:53:20 -0400 X-Greylist: delayed 452 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Mon, 07 Jul 2008 05:53:20 EDT Date: Mon, 7 Jul 2008 11:45:44 +0200 (MEST) From: Mattias Wadenstein To: Justin Piszcz cc: Robert Hancock , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-raid@vger.kernel.org, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, xfs@oss.sgi.com, Alan Piszcz Subject: Re: Lots of con-current I/O = resets SATA link? (2.6.25.10) In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: <486FBFAB.5050303@shaw.ca> <48700228.7060904@shaw.ca> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1887 Lines: 42 On Sat, 5 Jul 2008, Justin Piszcz wrote: > > > On Sat, 5 Jul 2008, Robert Hancock wrote: > >> Justin Piszcz wrote: >>>> Can you post your dmesg from bootup with the controller/drive detection? >> >> So you've got 6 drives in the machine. Intel chipsets normally seem pretty >> robust with AHCI. >> >> Are you certain that your machine has enough power to run all those drives >> properly? We've seen in a number of cases that power fluctuations or noise >> can cause these kinds of errors. > > I have a 650watt PSU (nice antec one) and the power draw of the box is > ~148watts w/ veliciraptors, ~250 when fully load all 4 cores + all 12 disks > writing. I have turned off the irqbalance daemon and I am going to see if > the problem re-occurs. Looking at the sum wattage number is really misleading for this. You need to dig out the specs for how many amps it can provide on the different voltages (5 and 12 volts). In particular, many modern PSUs have several separate 12V rails, where one (or more, some have the 12V supply split into 3 or 4 parts!) is used for CPU and GFX card power and usually only one is available for disks. You can also have plenty of 12V left but run out of 5V, or the other way around. I've spent quite some time trying to find a PSU that would handle 18 disks without costing too much. The splitting of the 12V power into separate rails and a general lack of 5V compared to what the disks need according to their specs just made it difficult, and I ended up bonding two PSUs together (linking the ground together with some custom cabling) to get a stable machine again. /Mattias Wadenstein -- 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/