Adaptec 1200A, Hp tc2120, 2-250GB Drives
 

Hello,

My Setup is:

HP tc2120
IDE Hard Drive with OS
Adaptec 1200A using High Point Drivers
2 - Maxtor 250GB hard drives attached to Adaptec (RAID-0)
Red hat Linux 7.3 kernel 2.4.18-3

I am attempting to transfer 200GB of files from a Windows NT 4.0 server to this Linux machine.

Overnight the transfer stopped (using PSCP because I found it to be much faster than copying over Samba). On the Linux machine an error was popping up about I/O errors.

I rebooted the Linux machine and took a look at the properties of the drive using Windows NT and it reported:
Used: 143,898,181,632 bytes

I copied one more file to it and it reported:
Used: 143,906,570,240 bytes

I tried adding another file and the Linux machine displayed:
Kernel panic: Aiee, killing interrupt handler!
In interrupt handler - not synching.

I know there are some case where a 137GB limit appears. I am not sure if that has something to do with this or not. According to the data on the Adaptec 1200A it can handle drives above 137GB, but perhaps the High Point driver doesn't for some reason? It seems I have seen that the 2.4 kernel does not have a 137GB barrier so I am assuming it is not the kernel.

Does anyone have some insight on this?

Thanks,

Darrell

do a df command on that system and see if the drives are full. Then you'll know.

According to DF:

/dev1/sda 480727088 116113700 340193788 26% /mnt/raid

So according to this only 26% of the drive is used. But is still dies if I try to add a new file. How would I go about finding out why?

looks like linux is reading it ok.

so you are initiating the copying from the Linux machine or the NT machine or vice versa?

what i'm wondering is, "while on the Linux machine", if you just copy a file to the drive(s) does it still act up?

Hello Nezzo,

Well, I reformatted the drive and started running the routine to check it so I won't be able to try that until tomorrow since I will be restarting the copy process today. But I don't think the NT machine would have anything to do with it since it is only sending files across the wire to server not directly accessing the Linux files.