Re: Oops 2.4.18 + RAID5 - me too

[Christian Guggenberger <christian.guggenberger@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi there!

We've been experiencing similiar Problems like Daryl has. Seems to be nfs 
related.
Ok, lets tell about our hardware.

Dual PIII@800MHz(Coppermine) on a MSI-6321 Board. # /sbin/lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C693A/694x [Apollo 
PRO133x] (rev c4)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C598/694x [Apollo 
MVP3/Pro133x AGP]
00:07.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686 [Apollo Super South] 
(rev 22)
00:07.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. Bus Master IDE (rev 10)
00:07.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. UHCI USB (rev 10)
00:07.3 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. UHCI USB (rev 10)
00:07.4 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686 [Apollo Super ACPI] 
(rev 30)
00:07.5 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. AC97 Audio 
Controller (rev 20)
00:0c.0 Unknown mass storage controller: Promise Technology, Inc. 20265 
(rev 02)
00:0f.0 Ethernet controller: 3Com Corporation 3c905C-TX [Fast Etherlink] 
(rev 74)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc 3D Rage Pro AGP 
1X/2X (rev 5c)

# free
             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:       1029976     507836     522140          0        624     272712
-/+ buffers/cache:     234500     795476
Swap:      2000084       3392    1996692

#dmesg
----cut----
hda: 60036480 sectors (30739 MB) w/1916KiB Cache, CHS=3737/255/63, UDMA(66)
hdc: 195371568 sectors (100030 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=193821/16/63, 
UDMA(66)
hdd: 195371568 sectors (100030 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=193821/16/63, 
UDMA(66)
hde: 195371568 sectors (100030 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=193821/16/63, 
UDMA(100)
hdf: 195371568 sectors (100030 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=193821/16/63, 
UDMA(100)
hdg: 195371568 sectors (100030 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=193821/16/63, 
UDMA(100)
hdh: 195371568 sectors (100030 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=193821/16/63, 
UDMA(100)
----cut----

(Software)-Raid5 consists of 6 Western Digital 100G hardiscs (WDC 
WD1000BB-00CCB0),
2 of them connected as hdc,hdd on onboard Via Controller, the rest 
connected to onboard Promise PDC20265.
System is Debian-Testing(last update: early February). Raid5 is exported 
to about 150 clients (Linux and Sun Solaris).
What's our Problem?
This machine had been running stable for about 100days with kernel-2.4.14 
and xfs-1.0.2, but then crashed and wouldn't boot anymore.(At this time, 
the Raid was about 70% full). Kernel locked while trying to initialize the 
Promise controller.We then switched to 2.4.18 and xfs(dated March 3), but 
still no luck. After installing a new Bios Version including a new 
Promise-Bios these problems were gone, but those nfs-related began!!
Even under normal nfs load this machine crashed.

Now i switched back to 2.4.14 + xfs-1.0.2 and my problems seem to have 
gone....

btw.: I didn't try xfs-1.1PR4

What could be wrong with linux-2.4.18-xfs, any ideas ??

Thx
Christian