Xserve problem

[Atro Tossavainen]

Lorenzo,

> all goes very well but when i'm coping some big files (200mb) from one
> disk to another i'm encountering allways the same problem: the IDE buffer
> has an error (full IDE buffer) and the kernel tries to reset the IDE
> channels then the system crashes.
> 
> How can i manage solving this problem?
> can anybody help me?

Kernel version, kernel configuration information, and dmesg output
right after boot would probably be helpful.

For whatever it's worth, I've never had this problem on our Xserve and
YDL 2.3.  I always use a kernel I've compiled myself.  The disks (two)
are completely RAIDed with Linux software RAID (/boot and / are mirrored,
the rest is striped), so I don't get to explicitly copy files from one
disk to another (but of course, the mirroring does exactly that in the
background).

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