[SATLUG] rebuilding kernel src.rpm (centos)

[Eli Cantu]

yea.  2 disks per controller.

I was suspicious of an irq issue so I was moving cards around, leaving
different pci slots free. I've moved to a different mobo, and the result
is the same.

The the logical 3rd card always behaves strangely.  I googled it and
others have posted similar experience and mentioned the kernel flag.

It very well could be an interrupt issue, but I'm hoping that the kernel
recompile works.

As a backup plan I have an 8 port 3ware card that I'm trying to snipe off
ebay.  :)

e





On Sat, June 10, 2006 7:49 pm, Jeremy Mann said:
> Interesting, why 3 controllers? It maybe an IRQ problem. Are you
> trying to make 2 discs on each controller as RAID5?
>
> On 6/10/06, Eli Cantu <eli at then7.com> wrote:
>> Thanks for the confirmation Jeremy.
>>
>> I thought that's the way I should do it.  But I saw a few articles on
>> the
>> net stating that I should only touch the spec file.
>>
>> Good to know.
>>
>> Just an fyi, if you run 3 promise controllers, the third will be
>> recognized, but will act bizarrely, lots of seek/interrupt errors.  I
>> could not assemble a 6 drive raid5 successfully due to this problem.
>>
>> The CONFIG_PDC202XX_BURST is supposed to fix it.  We'll see if it works.
>>
>> e
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Sat, June 10, 2006 6:25 pm, Jeremy Mann said:
>> > Eli, I just did this for our system. There are config files in
>> > /usr/src/redhat/SOURCES for each kernel, x86_64, bigmem, smp, etc...
>> > Just edit that config file and turn on whatever you want then run
>> > rpmbuild.
>> >
>> > On 6/10/06, Eli Cantu <eli at then7.com> wrote:
>> >> Need some help.  I've built plenty of kernels, but this time I'd like
>> to
>> >> keep my centos system clean, so I'm just going to rebuild the kernel
>> >> src.rpm
>> >>
>> >> So I'm simply trying to set the CONFIG_PDC202XX_BURST flag. I'm
>> looking
>> >> throught the spec file, and I thought I might see a ".config"-like
>> >> section
>> >> in there where kernel options are specified.
>> >>
>> >> But I don't see it. Looks like everything is done through patches.
>> >>
>> >> uh...what's the proper way to turn on CONFIG_PDC202XX_BURST ?
>> >>
>> >> Many Thanks,
>> >> e
>> >>
>> >>
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