Re: 3ware 8506-4 hangs while making filesystem

[Andrew Miehs <andrew@2sheds.de>]

I have an 8 port 8506-8 (no raid) and 3 250GB Disks running fine on a 
debian bf24 box.
Have formated each disk with ext3 and 1 partition.

Have a RAID 5 setup running on SUSE 9 with 600GB Space, and also no 
problems.

Andrew

> > > I'm installing a new system (P4C, intel mainboard, 1G RAM, 4x160GB 
> > > SATA,
> > > 3ware 8506-4, raid 5) and the system freezes completely while 
> > > formatting
> > > a big partition ("unable to handle kernel paging request..." means
> > > absolutely nothing to me).
> > > kernel BUG at buffer.c 559!
> > > invalid operand: 0000
> > > CPU: 0
> > > Anyone experienced this with a 3ware card?
> > > thanks, tinus
>
> redhat uses a 2.4.20 kernel (uname gives 2.4.20-8BOOT)
> and for woody I used bf24.
>
> filesystem does not seem to matter, I tried both ext2 and ext3.