Re: 2.4.19-pre8-ac5 ide & raid0 bugs

[Neil Brown]

On Wednesday May 29, [e-mail] wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I wrote about ide problems with 2.4.19-pre8 a few days ago (it just trashed
> filesystem in a couple hours) & I was told to try 2.4.19-pre8-ac5 it was a
> little bit better though every 5-8 hours I've got ide errors in log (at
> least it didn't crash my reiserfs volumes yet):
---snip--
> >-----------------------------
> But now I've got even more bugs in log like:
> >-----------------------------
> May 29 11:28:06 vzhik kernel: raid0_make_request bug: can't convert block
> across chunks or bigger than 16k 37713311 4
> May 29 11:28:06 vzhik kernel: raid0_make_request bug: can't convert block
> across chunks or bigger than 16k 37713343 4

This is a request for a 4K block that is not 4K aligned... this
shouldn't happen.
Are you using LVM or something to partition the raid0 array?
... though I seem to recall that LVM always partitions in multiples of
4K so that shouldn't be a problem.

More detais of configuration please.

> The question is -- What I have to try to get WORKING ide driver under
> "STABLE" kernel?

Use SCSI :-?

NeilBrown