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swestrupI updated my Debian kernel to 2.6.29-2 today. This was in hopes that the pdc202xx_old driver that comes with it will be significantly less crashy than the one that comes with 2.6.26, which is what I was previously running. The change log for that driver is HUGE between the two versions and knowing that was the major incentive to upgrade, despite such inconveniences as there not (yet) being an Xorg-nvidia driver available for the new kernel.
It used to be that if I booted with a drive in my drive-tray (which is the only thing currently hooked the Promise controller that pdc202xx_old is the driver for) I'd start getting errors after a small amount of use, and eventually the entire machine would just freeze solid after a couple of hours.
So, I rebooted and did a quick dd of the entire drive to /dev/null. No errors showed up in the logs. And its now been 6 hours, and I haven't crashed. I think the next stage is to start iozone and let it run all night, and see if we survive that. If I get up tomorrow and this machine is still running and the logs are still clear of disk errors, I'll be much happier about trusting the Promise IDE card and driver.
It used to be that if I booted with a drive in my drive-tray (which is the only thing currently hooked the Promise controller that pdc202xx_old is the driver for) I'd start getting errors after a small amount of use, and eventually the entire machine would just freeze solid after a couple of hours.
So, I rebooted and did a quick dd of the entire drive to /dev/null. No errors showed up in the logs. And its now been 6 hours, and I haven't crashed. I think the next stage is to start iozone and let it run all night, and see if we survive that. If I get up tomorrow and this machine is still running and the logs are still clear of disk errors, I'll be much happier about trusting the Promise IDE card and driver.
